Word: nailed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week U.S. basketball players, with an eye on next month's big tournaments, were fighting tooth & nail toward an even bigger goal: the U.S. Olympic final trials, to be held at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, scene and source of a majority of the scandalous fixes. The top ten teams in the Associated Press poll...
Detailed Description. In Lexington, Ky., after a swindled merchant set cops on the trail of a forger wearing a ragged coat fastened with an eightpenny nail, Suspect Brice Young protested: "It couldn't be me. My coat is fastened with tenpenny nail...
...Products. He started to broaden Warner's lines by buying up companies at bargain rates. He picked up Courtley's men's toiletries for $1,500,000 (last year's sales: $1,200,000), got a cut-rate deal on Chen Yu (nail polish and lipstick), and paid $1,000,000 for Raymond Laboratories, maker of Rayve shampoos and home permanents (later sold to Lever Bros, for $5,000,000). Bobst also brought out Hudnut's own line of men's toilet goods and heavily plugged such oldtime Warner standbys as the famed Sloan...
...beautiful dress in houses at the time of marriage etc. Exchange to American goods like Pilgrim secret wallets, billfolds, belts, hand-paint Original ties, jackets, candys and gums, cameras, trousers, T shirts, sports shirts, coats, pearls, earrings, powders, soaps, canvas, cosmetic, towel, cigarette cases, colourful ankle socks, shoes, finger nail clippers...
Sometimes, but not often, the IBM-Open recruiting system goes wrong. For example, in 1941, a clerk in the admissions office inadvertently ran his nail along the edges of a batch of cards under process. The resultant nick caused the acceptance of twelve Cuban handball players...