Word: rivet
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...supported since 1952, has more reason to fear that his government will not be able to rebuild Algeria's shattered economy or redistribute its land fast enough to please his impatient chief of staff. In that case, the next time Boumedienne marches, it will probably be to rivet army rule on Algeria. Boumedienne has often remarked that "the army is the spearhead of the revolution"-and he alone wields the spear...
...money to finance a pet project that should keep Ghana under the yoke of colonialism for years to come: a $196 million dam and power plant to be built on the Volta River. (According to an Administration official. President Kennedy intends to send a mission to Accra "to rivet some things down" before approving the project.) Meanwhile, a 19-man Ghana delegation was heading for Russia-where Nkrumah himself had just paid a call-to wrap up economic and cultural agreements. Ghana was also preparing to invite a Soviet military mission to train the country's small...
SLOPPY INSPECTION of Electras before they were delivered to airlines brought a $6,000 fine to Lockheed from the Federal Aviation Agency. Among things found in wing fuel tanks were screws, rubbish, vacuum cleaners, a rivet gun. Since violations were uncovered, Lockheed has tightened up its inspections to FAA's satisfaction...
...shot down 47 enemy aircraft in World War I and was wounded 17 times, was never seen again. Pending inspection of the instrument-panel fragment, French authorities remained skeptical that it came from L'Oiseau Blanc. But a former French flyer now living in Maine said that the rivet construction of the fragment indicated that it was from a plane of the same vintage...
Watching workers hammering at the panels, Khrushchev picked up one of their discarded rivets, pondered its alloy, and pocketed it with a sly smile: "Look, I am stealing this. I think the United States can afford the loss of one rivet." Then he moved on, admiring the cut of a worker's quilted nylon and Fiberglas jacket, watching how it zipped. "Very practical. I like the cut," he grinned. "We must get the pattern-or, if not, borrow this...