For a while yesterday, the Staten Island beaches were closed to sunbathers as well as swimmers, because of the risk that those strolling near the shore might step on something like a needle hidden in the sand.

According to CIA Director William Colby, a tiny saxitoxin-impregnated needle hidden inside a fake silver dollar was issued to Francis Gary Powers, an American U-2 pilot who was shot down while flying over the USSR in May 1960.

You are what you seem, my Lord, with no poisoned needles hidden away to catch the unwary.

Finding something as minute as an individual power transmission is like looking for a needle hidden in a haystack.

It was like looking for three needles hidden inside a straw in a haystack.

But when the Whitecloaks give me a gift, I search for the poisoned needle hidden in it.

Isn't this a bit like A/B testing finding a needle in a haystack, vs a needle hidden amongst a few straws?

But now he's out there doing our work for us, telling everyone how we knew he had a needle hidden in his beer can.

However, by the time they can land and get checked up and ready to hunt for us, we'll be a mighty small needle, well hidden in a good big haystack.