Word: nailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...salesman's magic, has earned widespread respect for candor and readiness with information. "You should see him operate with Congress," said a colleague. "Whenever a knotty one comes up, he slaps his knee and says: 'Senator, you're entirely right. You've hit the nail on the head.' Next thing you know, the whole room is full of Senators working like mad to help Paul Hoffman solve his problems...
...real subject was almost never mentioned. The battle, as everyone knew, was actually over Harry Truman's program to guarantee civil rights to Negroes in the South. That kind of federal assault on historic Southern prejudices was an issue which the South was always ready to fight tooth & nail...
Bill O'Dwyer contemptuously snorted "crackpot." Ryan was undismayed. He chirped back: "A question a day might keep Costello away." The next morning, resplendent in pearl-grey Homburg, Ryan was back at City Hall. This time he nailed to the front door of the Hall photostats of some old (and generally discredited) grand jury charges that O'Dwyer had been grossly lax as district attorney of Brooklyn. Ryan happily held every pose the photographers yelled for, withdrew the nail, and went away...
Russia has shown no signs whatever of going to war over the Atlantic Pact. She has fought it tooth & nail, but only with defensive acts of desperation, e.g., international threats of Communist treason. In Rome last week, when Premier De Gasperi announced his cabinet's decision to join the pact, a small mob of Communists in front of the Parliament building shouted, "Down with warmongers and wars!" and "There are pillars in Rome whereon to hang traitors!" They were joined by neo-Fascist youths (members of the Italian Social Movement). The neo-Fascists objected to the pact because...
TIME, Feb. 21, correctly reported that American Medical Association will "fight compulsory health insurance tooth & nail." Your article, however, carried erroneous statement: "The A.M.A. has also turned its back on such individually financed measures as the voluntary health insurance plan offered by the Blue Cross-Blue Shield Commissions" . . . Both the Blue Shield and Blue Cross plans have had and will continue to have the vigorous support of A.M.A...