Word: nailed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Under the rubble they found a well-preserved stucco floor which had been painted red and later green. This, they decided, was the storehouse for votive gifts. Some of the gifts were still there, imbedded in cracks in the floor. Among them were a gold ring, a large silver nail, parts of gilded bronze statues. The style of the building showed that it dated from pre-Greek times, when the Great Gods were young...
Three Crimson tacklers had shots at the Purple fullback; none was able to nail him. Indeed, the tackling ability of Coach Lloyd Jordan's team seemed to have retrogressed, after the impressive hard-hitting game against Springfield...
...five. Much of the message reads like all other Soviet "peace" proposals, but it also includes a muddily worded suggestion for prohibition of atomic weapons and "establishment of inspection over the implementation of such prohibition." In the past, the Russians have fought any proposal for inspection tooth & nail. There was enough bait in the proposal to make the West look up with interest-and caution...
...France, Gaullists, Communists and some nearsighted or timid middle-of-the-roaders are sure to fight the plan's ratification tooth & nail. The British, at best, are lukewarm. But, as a disgusted German delegate said to a French colleague at the height of the haggling in Paris: "If we go on like this,-we'll be arguing about German rearmament in Siberia...
Cherchez la Femme. In Big Arm, Mont., Ade Wagner went fishing, caught a 3-ft. rattlesnake, then found that four of its rattles were coated with bright red nail polish...