Word: nailed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Horseshoe-Nail Gayle. In Newington, Conn., six-year-old Gayle Grant got out of bed for a drink of water, turned on a bathroom faucet, couldn't turn it off, waded to the telephone, wept into it incoherently, alarmed the operator, who turned in a fire alarm. The siren sounded a raid alert instead, just as a factory whistle blew. The countryside was aroused; the state prison gathered itself for an emergency; air wardens by the hundreds scurried to their posts...
...choosing Joseph Stalin Man of the Year, TIME not only hit the nail on the head, but sunk a spike in one blow. Stalin stands for the Russian people, for what they are and for all they have done, the way they've done it, their guts, patriotism and downright loyalty to him as a leader in a country at war. The Germans fight like devils, but the Russian people, all of them, are fighting like all hell and their fight is in the name of Stalin. In him has the impossible been attained-for a second time. Whether...
...Supreme Court this week gave a body blow to the American Medical Association and a hefty lift to the idea of group prepaid medical care, a scheme A.M.A. had fought tooth & nail...
Lieut. General McNair's words*(TIME, Nov. 23) certainly hit the nail on the head. . . . The best way to attain the kind of world we are fighting for is to take up killing as a national pastime rather than just a nasty but necessary business...
...John B. Hollister. Personable, pipe-smoking John Hollister is from Cincinnati, and it is the Midwest's turn for the chairmanship. He is the law partner of Ohio's Senator Robert A. Taft. At the 1940 convention, he captained the Taft-for-President forces, fought Willkie tooth-&-nail. But afterward he became a director of the Associated Willkie Clubs of America, boarded the campaign train as an aide, was with Willkie constantly from early September until election day. Asked by a newsman last week whether he was an Old Guard or Willkie Republican, conciliatory John Hollister replied...