Word: nailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Michael Griffin in his article, "What is the matter with the people?" (TIME, July 20) has hit the nail on the head. . . . Believe me, the people are getting pretty dam' tired of selfish interests, political skimeroodle, and red tape. We want action, not oratory; sacrifices, not parades; victories, not flag waving. And we want it not after the elections, not next week, not tomorrow...
...picture from Fort Banning of what looked like a nail-spitting, weather-beaten machine gunner from way back turned out to be of Lieut. Colonel Frank Murphy, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, who went on leave for military duty just a month...
...attended the famous banquet of 23 courses ("the three high spots were perhaps the mushrooms fried in sour cream, the sturgeon in champagne and the pilaf of quail") at which Stalin asked God to bless Franklin Roosevelt. Between courses Author Reynolds found time to tick off some neat thumb nail impressions of Soviet leaders...
...True, Bertie," bleated the Hon. Freddie Threepwood, hitting the nail with unaccustomed vigor. "But Bertie, I mean to say, what is one to make of the nauseating news that Swedish journalist fellow just dished up, that Plum has signed on the jolly old dotted with a Nazi film company for two pictures, and that that frightful cad Hitler is giving him special 'courtesy marks' for good behavior? Well, what I mean to say is-fun's fun, but dash it all -." The Hon. Freddie collapsed into bewildered silence...
There are pictures of disheartened workers trudging the roads, looking not for a job but a place to live. A recorded voice intones: "For want of a nail, the shoe was lost. . . ." From the walls placards answer: "For want of housing the worker is lost, for want of the worker production is lost." Then, a hot blast of air and two great, blood-red pictures -one of the burning U.S.S. Arizona, the other of a little girl wringing her hands over her bullet-riddled sister in Poland...