Word: nailed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...could no longer read the newspapers with any enjoyment for all the important political columnists were daily comparing the nomination of anyone but Willkie to the Fall of France-Ray Clapper, Mark Sullivan, Arthur Krock, Dorothy Thompson, Walter Lippmann, Westbrook Pegler, Hugh Johnson. Even the coldest, toughest of all, nail-hard Frank Kent told them flatly in his old-shrew style that, while Herbert Hoover was the best man, Wendell Willkie was the only winning candidate...
...column and a half of his department in the May 20 issue to excerpts from a characteristically sage editorial by our beloved Kansas editor, William Allen White. It definitely puts one heretofore lively controversy in the category of finished business. The Sage of Emporia has hit the proverbial nail so well on the head that there remains no nail to work...
...much immature as spiritually arrested, There is a touch of Goebbels about his propaganda-crass, bold and hard to nail...
...reason for this subscription is of course your splendid editorial calling down President Conant of Harvard, President Seymour of Yale and Bishop Manning of New York. Ye gods, how right you are!! Kenneth Roberts hit the nail on the head when he praised your editorial, whereas Professor McLaughlin's criticism gave me a pain in the neck. Your answer to him was perfect...
...controls Harvard when he talks of his "Alma Mater, the greatest center of learning and enlightenment in the world, and institution so stable that its influence is always greater than a particular set of men who control it at one time." Here he has hit the head of the nail instead of his thumb. Then, too, it is very doubtful that universities have as much immediate, concrete influence on the nation as Mr. Sargent attributes to them...