Word: nailed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...George) Ashton Oldham, Episcopal Bishop of Albany, roundly denied the importance of lipstick and nail polish to keep up U.S. morale. "God help this country," cried he in a Lenten sermon, "if we have to depend on those things for morale." Promptly from Hollywood came red-white-&-blue protests: How would the Bishop of Albany like to give up shaving? "I am willing to stop shaving," he countered, "if they are willing to give up cosmetics." That appeared unlikely...
...explosives on dodging cargo ships and destroyers. This fight was for the kill. The Mitchells swooped low to strafe lifeboats and rafts. A destroyer, three merchantmen and a transport were sunk. Eight others were hit. One squadron of Mitchells, skip-bombing at mast level, got twelve hits, despite the nail of frantic Jap ack-ack. More Zeros appeared, but they too were shot down. Kenney's bombers were blasting at Lae, nearest Jap airdrome, with such ferocity that effective aid for the convoy could not get into...
Captain L. L. Woodman, School Executive Officer, put his thumb in the way early this week while hammering on a KEEP OUT sign at the pistol range in Wayland. "Just a case of hitting the wrong nail," he says...
There were and still are other sources of friction, dangerous as a bare nail in a shoe. General Bissell is by report an able soldier who respects the rulebooks and goes by them. Chennault is an able soldier who has no use for "the book." Result is constant friction. It is increased by the fact that his supply of planes (of which he hopes to have a maximum 500) comes through Bissell's India command...
...pockets. He looked around him slowly at the rectangular islands of clean paint on the walls, ghosts of Bob's school banners and pictures, that had become so familiar. He stared hard at the emptiness. A piece of jagged white wood hanging slantwise on the wall by a single nail caught his eye. Vag cocked his head and read, "H-19, P-14, Comeford to Lyle." He thought of Bob on that fantastic afternoon wading into the melee of wild-eyed goal posters in his shirt sleeves, while Vag held his coat and made conversation with Bob's girl from...