Word: nailed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shut up, or I'll nail your other foot to the floor...
...promotion ideas to expand them greatly. A student with a good idea will be able to borrow up to $5,000 to start a new business if he can convince the Agency's directors that it would be profitable and proper to set him up selling typewriters or toe-nail clippers. Within the rather vague limits of propriety, the opportunities for future hucksters seem boundless...
...then small $600,000 account was first snagged by McCann-Erickson's John McCarthy-who lasted a stormy six months with Revson. The two men finally fell out over McCarthy's dirty fingernails. When Revson needled him, McCarthy snapped: "What do you want me to do, use nail polish?" Revson laughed-and ordered McCarthy thrown off the account. Now executive editor of the Catholic Digest, McCarthy, who still has dirty fingernails, says freely and even admiringly: "Charlie is a genius. He is also a bombastic, terribly hardworking, frantic guy who just chews people .up. Unless you can bully...
...blonde hair, the business of hair-dyeing was a secretive thing reserved largely for showfolk. Women retired to back rooms to brew their metallic dyes; slinking out came eye-fluttering hussies. But nowadays, as one TV personality reports, "it's the same as changing the color of your nail polish. It doesn't have any more stigma than that...
...Erick von Lohmond of the Teutonic gentry. Too young for World War I, he grows up into one of the crudest of civil wars. The Red soldiers who come sweeping through the Baltic birch forests so hate the Czarist military system that when they capture a White officer they nail his hated epaulets to his shoulders or, because the officers had once worn white gloves, flay his hands while he still lives. "Our men were not lacking in invention either," the White narrator laconically admits. It was a war in which few prisoners were spared, but all were prisoners...