Word: nailed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last fall Federal Security Administrator Oscar Ewing dropped a bombshell: a program of compulsory health insurance which he recommended to President Truman. Ever since, the big brass of the American Medical Association have been spluttering with indignation. Determined to fight compulsory health insurance tooth & nail, the A.M.A. has also turned its back on such individually financed measures as the voluntary health insurance plan offered by the Blue Cross-Blue Shield Commissions (TIME, Dec. 13). In its fighting mood, the A.M.A. has even levied a $25 assessment on each of its 140,000 members...
...essentially an old shoe: the same kind of satiric article Frederic Wakeman tried to fit on the advertising business in The Hucksters. Weidman's is the better fit. His boardroom oratory and office memoranda strike the ear with just the right sound of bursting fruit, and he can nail his types with the deftness of a bartender spearing a cherry with a toothpick. Says one of his newspaper executives, nodding toward his wife and suggesting another round of drinks: "I have an old beat-up legman here, or legwoman, rather, who helps me with odds and ends around...
Women in Purdah. Israel's first election campaign rumbled along in good ward-political style. Politicians fought each other tooth & nail for the limited campaign facilities. Parties accused each other of renting all the public halls in Tel Aviv although they had no intention of actually using them; one party was accused of trying to catch the Rumanian immigrant vote by leasing Tel Aviv's only Rumanian printing press...
...Comrade Nail. The Dutch have gained the "close cooperation" of Paku Buwono XII, the Susuhunan ("Nail from Which the Universe Is Suspended") of Surakarta. The Susuhunan is a shy little Dutcheducated, sport-loving princeling who meekly permitted himself to be called "Comrade" during the republic. The Dutch would have to find stronger nails on which to peg their rule...
That tired feeling when you get up in the morning, those nagging worries, that lack of enjoyment in work or friends, that feeling of indecision, of conflicting emotions, that nail-biting, that heart that beats too fast now & then, and that sudden flush-what causes all that? And how do you treat people who complain of these sub-neurotic symptoms...