Word: nailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pinch, there are always lipsticks, compacts, or combinations of both, nail polish and all the tools that go with it, wallets, pocketbooks, and endless types of jewelry...
...dope fiend. (She sprays her temperamental throat with a doctor's prescription that includes cocaine.) Once, for the benefit of a visiting innocent, she took a Benzedrine pill (a drug she uses regularly), mashed it on wax paper with a rolling pin and asked for a nail file. Then, sprinkling the powder on the file and sniffing it, she said: "This is really the only way it's effective, dahling...
...Mexico's rampaging Senatorial Candidate Pat Hurley, who is in a tooth & nail fight with ex-Agriculture Secretary Clint Anderson, had already explained to Warren why he could not follow the Warren line. "Pat," Warren had urged, "don't fight 'em, unify 'em." Replied Hurley: "Governor, I've got to fight 'em. Clint Anderson's got me out-unified...
...fall, over and over, like past years' Yale game hopes. Again he wondered, had the team changed or was it the same same same he jumped up and turned off the turntable. As soon as "Crimson in Triumph" had stopped spinning, he picked it up, centered it on a nail over the mantel, and pushed his favorite horseshoe up against it. Then he took "Ten Thousand Men of Harvard" and carried it carefully into his bedroom, placing if underneath his pillow. The Columbia game couldn't be helped but there was many a night until Yale...
...followed was as refreshing an exhibition of parliamentary vigor as Europe had had in years. Up rose portly Socialist Carlo Schmid to pledge his party's cooperation with the Christian Democrats (who hold a slight majority). In the past, the Social Democrats had fought the Christian Democrats tooth & nail in every election; but the Berlin airlift had galvanized both parties into common enthusiasm and common sense...