Word: nailed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...celebrated misfire of the Vanguard satellite (TIME, Dec. 16) falls into the category of battles that were lost for want of a nail. Studying films and performance data, technicians have traced Vanguard's failure to a leak sprung in a fuel line. The leak produced two quick effects: 1) because an improper ratio of fuel was being pumped into the thrust chamber, the missile lost thrust; 2) escaping fuel spurting against the hot pump assembly caught fire, turned Vanguard into a grounded inferno when the fire backlashed to the fuel tanks. Total cost of the malfunctioning part that punctured...
Anticipation of recession was scarier than the realization. When the production cuts finally started, the nation's mood gradually turned from nail-biting to cool appraisal. The quick shift in sentiment was clear on Wall Street, which for a change accurately reflected business opinion through 1957. In January and February, when the first gloom-sayers gave tongue, stocks tumbled 44 points to 454.82 on the Dow-Jones industrial average. Later, when it became apparent that the initial pessimism was overdone, the market soared to within only a quarter of a point of the alltime 521.05 high reached...
...Schmidt was a man we could use. But unlike some linebackers, he's clean at being mean." Says Schmidt simply: "I tackle low and hard. There's only one reason for a high, crashing tackle-to hurt a man. It gives me just as much satisfaction to nail a hard-running back on the line of scrimmage as it does for a back to make a long run and score a touchdown...
...policy-toppling director of Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art (TIME, Dec. 29, 1952), author on art and archaeology (The Taste of Angels, Fifty Centuries of Art); of complications after a kidney operation; in Worcester, Mass. Harddriving, high-strung ("I don't relax, I just collapse") nail-biting Scholar-Showman Taylor retired from the Met because his self-imposed burdens "so taxed my nervous and physical energies," but in his 15-year reign, he doubled the museum's endowment (more than $62 million in 1954), doubled its annual attendance (over 2,500,000) and tripled its membership...
...storied seragli of Scheherazade and The Arabian Nights are gone. In Algeria's fabled city of Ouled Nail, source of the erotic danse du ventre that is known in a pallid version to the West as the belly dance, the Ouled Nail girls are taking to Coca-Cola and French frocks, demanding that their traditionally lazy men get out and work for themselves...