Word: nailing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Riding a tailwind in perfect rowing conditions, the Tigers surprised everyone but themselves by stroking past the Crimson varsity in the last 500 meters for a half-boatlength victory, hammering one final nail into the Harvard dynasty's coffin...
...gems, he got half an ounce of coke worth $1,000. Nicky's parents had him arrested, and until two weeks ago he lived at Boston's Third Nail drug-treatment center...
...strong-dollar stance has been insufferable, for a mighty dollar makes any cut in oil prices of a windfall for Common Market countries. France alone stood to have gained $3.5 billion from the recent OPEC slash, but the devaluation has dashed those hopes. European currencies fight tooth and nail against the kind of U.S. intervention to moderate the instability of the world market should bring certainty back to world currencies; the cooperative spirit of Bretton Woods, where Western nations overlooked differences to establish a world currency system, has been unnecessarily obscured...
Curtis, a burly, noisy workaholic, organized his war into five campaigns. There were three phases in Europe, each lasting from nine to eleven weeks, and two in the U.S. During the month's break between sections, he would nail down locations for future scenes. "In more than a year of shooting, we had to stop only twice," he says proudly. "I shoot in everything. Rain, snow, it doesn't make any difference to me. If I can roll that camera and move the people, I am going...
...left the center to return for our exam, our car ran over an enormous nail on the highway, which ripped right through one of the tires. There was no spare in the car, and no repairman was available until the next day. We were in a remote area, and there was no other choice for us but to spend the night in a nearby motel. Only today was the tire repaired, and so we are a day late for your final...