Word: nailing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...McNeely, tearing down a dirt road after two kids on unregistered, unlicensed, uninsured motorcycles, conceded there was some resistance to his policies at first. "Some people called me a little dictator, a little Hitler," he said. "I was fighting tooth and nail to clean up the department, and it seemed like everything I did got blowed out of proportion. It was all over hell." The marshal expertly maneuvered his squad car into a position to cut off the young bikers. Both got off with warnings, and the admonition that failure to correct their legal obligations would amount...
Bloom and Casey thought a 3-2 pitch was a strike to nail down the perfect game, but the umpire disagreed. After the walk, the next batter popped up and Bloom settled for the no-hitter, 12 strikeouts and a 13-0 victory...
...tackle Carmel's No. 1 problem, tourist parking, he may first have to deal with the tourists, who are expected to jam city council meetings. "We'll encourage nonresidents to stay away," Eastwood quipped in his best tough-guy fashion. "Maybe with a two-by-four with a nail...
...repeatedly uses the bush-league redundancy "consensus of opinion." Both authors have a good handle on Getty's complex business holdings and the right touch when dealing with the old man's harem, the collecton of seasoned beauties who lived at Sutton Place and fought capped tooth and lacquered nail for sole possession of their host. Their efforts were not well rewarded; each received a paltry, if not insulting, legacy from the richest man in the world. The bulk of his estate went to the Getty Museum in Malibu, an institution that tax-sheltered much of its founder's collection...
...eager for a culturally affirmative notice from a New York magazine. Walker, on his way down to this troubled scene, knows in advance what benefits this particular reporter is likely to bestow: "Lowndes can't get it on to write and he hates to see people work. He'll nail them to a tree...