Word: nailed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With the meet numerically clinched, the Scarlet put the final nail in the coffin before a happy capacity crowd of home rooters by taking not only the final 400-yard relay, and what adds up to their twenty-second straight victory in dual meet competition...
...refusing to join De Gasperi's Government, had decided to tackle the Communist position at its labor union roots. His group, planning to contest union elections during the next few months, did not want to be tagged as conservatives. The Communists saw the danger and fought him tooth & nail. Recently, when Alessandro Cappelletti, burly head of the Land Workers' Union, openly came out for Saragat, the Communists thew him bodily out of his office, later "legalizing" the act by also voting him out of office...
Dogtag. In Chicago, Dolores McCrossen lost her dog, asked police to find it. Identifying marks: red nail polish on its toenails...
...Moore hit the nail on the head [TIME, Dec. 16]. There is too much ridicule of the U.N. and our good friend Russia . . . The U.N. was to be a world governing body, but now it seems to be the butt of many jokes and much fun. We students in the high schools and colleges of the U.S. can begin . . by educating our parents and friends in the hopes and aspirations of U.N. The more we learn, the less we will want to joke...
...this pamphlet, Novelist Jean-Paul Sartre, the leader of the French Existentialist movement, vigorously, often brilliantly, drags a shady topic into the light. He occasionally pushes a sound idea to a silly extreme, e.g.: readers are likely to feel that Author Sartre hits the nail square on the head when he says that the anti-Semite is normally a petty bourgeois who takes "passionate pride" in being "an average man . . . a mediocre person." But they will balk when Sartre goes on to say that "there is no example of an anti-Semite claiming individual superiority over the Jews," or that...