Word: nailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shoeing. Little Joe never actually worked at his father's trade. But he grew up to have his old man's squat build. And in the politician's trade, which Joe Martin took up, he worked in the manner of a blacksmith - a nail here, a nail there, working most of the time close to the ground...
...Sage of he Age crawled from his straw pallet and struggled towards the Sanctum door as he had for the last 200 years. He rubbed the opiate ashes from his left eyelid, which he opened wide enough to perceive the Canton Trust Company calender dangling on a nail above the door...
...Part of the cure for consumption was to catch the tops of nine waves in a dish, then dump the contents on the head of the patient. Asthma could be dispatched by rolling spider webs into a ball and then swallowing them; epilepsy was dealt with by driving a nail into the spot where the sufferer had fallen. Nine lice eaten with a piece of bread & butter cured jaundice, and a poultice of sheep's dung cleared up erysipelas in no time...
When the town ignored them, they dragged nail kegs to the spot where the bench had originally reposed, and perched on them like defiant octopuses clinging to piling. The chief of police threatened to confiscate the nail kegs. That was more than the old men could take. They demanded, and finally got, a special municipal election to decide whether the bench should be restored...
TIME . . . really hit the nail square on the head in its description of Mayor Fletcher Bowron. He is all you say he is, and not much more...