Word: nailed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Burlyn Pike straightened Columnist Pearson out. The jail, built 23 years ago, was made not of logs, but concrete; it had four cells, not two; and no runaway boy had been detained there since 1943. The embarrassed Courier-Journal asked one of its Washington correspondents, hardworking John Day, to "nail Pearson...
Discipline & Love. After 1910 came the most abrupt change. Instead of love, stern discipline was recommended. To stop nail-biting, one expert wrote: "Get some white cotton gloves and make her wear these all the time-even in school. They will not only serve as a reminder, but also make her ashamed when people ask her about them." Obedience was to be required at all times, "and if temper tantrums resulted, they should be ignored...
...neither a fool with a frozen smile, Nor a sad old toad in a cask of bile; He can dance with a shoe nail in his heel, And never a sign of his pain reveal...
...requires an extraordinary number of papers, and fails even then to ensure that anyone can find the exam he is looking for. In addition, it creates an unsightly rubble pile. Where exam papers are concerned, the only way to keep them in order and in the library is to nail them down, chain them to the wall, or put them safely out of reach...
Next morning 700 drivers, mostly from the Cardenas Club, gathered at the Trolleymen's Alliance hall for an indignation meeting. Just as things were boiling nicely, Mexico City's nail-hard traffic chief, General Antonio Gómez Velasco, drew up outside with two heavily armed riot squads. "Fifteen minutes to come out and get back to work," the cops warned over a portable loudspeaker. "We are protecting the public of Mexico!" When the cabbies stood firm, the police let fly with tear-gas projectiles...