Word: nailed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year-old Judy Graves, flanked by her condescending sub-deb sister Lois, and her floppy, frog-voiced friend Fuffy Adams. To Lois life merely means Boys in all shapes and sizes; to Judy and Fuffy it means squeals and nudges, their first high-heeled shoes, their first colored nail polish, food every hour, and thinking about their parents in terms of Tyrone Power and Irene Dunne. So long as it sticks to a world in which Christmas is Heaven, 35 seems old age, and giggles serve as repartee, Junior Miss is gay, bright, fairly authentic...
...prankster took advantage of the confusion and noise that resulted from the singing of German folksongs to insert a nail in the lock of the door, thus jamming it. The unfortunate victims, alarmed at the prospect of spending a night in the Tower, frantically summoned the firemen in the hopes that a ladder would extricate them from their embarrassment...
...play began with a tiny incident, something as small as Ben Franklin's nail (for want of which a horseshoe was lost). And the result threatened to be as enormous as Franklin's disaster (for want of a battle, the kingdom was lost...
...great structure in which the public, industry and labor alike had confidence, were now within sight of roofing this house with a definite pattern of dispute settlement, under which all disputants would automatically turn to mediation machinery, would never strike. As last week opened, Davis was ready to nail on the weather vane: for the first time in seven months not a single actual strike case was before the Board...
...first time since the flurry over Rudolf Hess's arrival in Scotland, Winston Churchill referred last week to Britain's most distinguished uninvited guest. He did not answer any questions as to Hess's mission; instead he used the flyaway Nazi to nail home for British listeners the point that there had been a great improvement in the Battle of the Atlantic...