Word: nailing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have hit the nail on the correct spot. The thing that hurts, and the thing that has wrapped me in this mantle of gloom is the reason...
...SENATORS DELAY VOTE ON CONANT; 20,000 LETTERS OPPOSE HIM. "It is expected the testimony (before the Foreign Relations Committee) will provide new ammunition for the behind the scenes bloc of Senators who are apposing the Conant appointment tooth and nail." The 20,000 letters were an "estimate" of the ever-resent "informed source...
...player buys a handful of small steel balls at 2 yen (½?/) apiece and drops them one by one into a small hole on the right side of the machine. With a spring-driven lever he flicks the ball upward; if it happens to fall into one of several nail-fenced cavities in the face of the machine, the player wins 10, 15 or 20 steel balls. Those he can trade for cigarettes, candies or a variety of other inexpensive prizes (law forbids prizes worth more than 27?). A devotee who has taken home 600 yen or more in prizes...
...Department of Justice have hunted for skulduggery in the RFC's relations with its biggest ($86 million) railroad debtor, the Baltimore & Ohio. All of them found plenty of things to criticize, such as the RFC's agreement to swap collateral for less valuable security, its failure to nail down repayment terms, and the way ex-RFC officials grabbed off juicy B. & O. executive jobs. But none of them found anything on which to prosecute. Last week in Washington, a federal grand jury decided it had something. On evidence presented by the Department of Justice, it indicted...
...drier aspects of their research, Authors David Clayton and Punch Cartoonist David Langdon learned that some Spaniards call a hangover a clavo (nail), short for "a nail in the head." And one nail, they believe, drives out another...