Word: nailed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Foreign News department my appreciation for the admirable expression contained in the following sentence: "Therefore, some of the sentences of Vichy have had a gutteral German hardness about them [TIME, Oct. 28]." I assume, of course, that this was intentional coining of a new word which certainly hits the nail on the head...
Chief significance of long-nosed General de Gaulle's efforts to nail down French colonies on Africa's west coast is that, in Axis hands, those colonies could base raiders to prey on Britain's supply line to Cape Town, Australia and around through the Red Sea to Egypt. Having failed at Dakar, the De Gaullists were pressing their luck elsewhere, as much as anything to keep colonists from succumbing to Axis pressure and Vichy subservience. The distance is too great, through too country, for Gabon or the Cameroons to serve as an alternative point of ingress...
...girls enact their own rules of conduct, mete out their own punishments. Result is strict discipline. For eating candy (only fruit is allowed between meals), a Rosemarian is kept "on bounds" for two weeks. Some other rules: no chewing gum or cigarets (except for sixth formers), no lipstick or nail polish while in uniform, no reading unpermissioned literature or attending unpermissioned movies...
...which she gave Irving Berlin's classic tunes the de luxe plugging she had long since conferred on melodies of Gershwin and Porter. She has had some fun in Hollywood, including one session in which, during the absence of Don Ameche from his dressing room, she helped to nail his clothing to his furniture. On the whole she is not congenially disposed toward the cinema capital. Instead of the almost invariably warm audience just across the footlights, there are cold microphones and technicians...
...they ate was cod, bread, tea, wild berries. They were plagued with tuberculosis, scurvy, anemia, beriberi. They had never seen a doctor, and they treated their sick with charms: sugar blown into babies' eyes to cure them of ophthalmia, haddock fin bones to ward off rheumatism, burned nail parings to drive away sea boils. A scratch with a fish hook often meant infection and the loss of a limb...