Word: nailed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...enterprises pay no income tax. Neither does The Voice, whose snappy double-breasted suits, flowing ties, and manicures are listed as "legitimate church expenses." Now California unions are fighting him tooth & nail. Last month they claimed a victory when the War Labor Board ordered him to continue a union contract at San Francisco's Hotel Cecil. But The Voice had already dodged out of range by selling the establishment (at a neat $60,000 profit) a month before. Undeterred, the unions last week were pressing cases against other church hotels in which salaried workers have been replaced by Bell...
...Coast Guard, it was a bitter loss. Two pitchers had shared the visitors' mound duty and pitched as well as Wallace but failed to nail down the last man. Added to the astonishing facts of the victory was the decision to call the game at the end of the fourteenth...
...Pathe Studios in Joinville, a suburb of Paris, dozens of nail-straighteners were hard at work last week. With new nails scarce or unobtainable, their labors were needed to make scenery for a movie to be called L'Assassin Chantait. In Paris offices, French cinemagnates and U.S. and British moneymen were equally busy making deals and filling the French movie world with rumors of great things to come...
...eleven good German divisions had been fighting the Canadians tooth & nail. On the Roer, only six bottom-of-the-barrel divisions, backed up by two armored outfits, had faced the U.S. armies. These hapless rearguards provided most of the 50,000 prisoners which the Allies took in little more than a week...
...baffled jailers guessed that they had made a lock impression for their keys with wet cigaret papers, had formed them with a hidden sliver of nail file. Recalling the accuracy of Cook's prediction, they thought uneasily of another of his announcements...