Word: nailing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...calico nail brushes or Turkey Cat Snacks galore...
...step that would have forced white residents to move out. An interracial grass-roots campaign was organized to fight the proposed rezoning, and at least for the time being, has succeeded. Says an elated Peter Parkin, a city councilman and head of the Open Woodstock campaign: "The first nail is being driven into the coffin of residential segregation in South Africa...
...staff, arrived at the meeting Thursday and under orders from Reagan retracted some concessions the Administration had made earlier. Baker denied that claim: "Anyone who tries to characterize it as the White House pulling the plug is completely and totally wrong." The Administration contended that the Democrats refused to nail down any particulars...
...cease-fires in four war zones, plainly hoping to appease hard- liners within his own government, who oppose even indirect talks with the rebels. "The contras did not respect that cease-fire," he shouted in Revolution Plaza, shaking his fist. "We are going to go after them tooth and nail...
Colorful is not the word to describe Louisiana politics. Chicago politics is colorful. Louisiana politics is almost beyond description to the outside world. Louisiana is a state that fought tooth and nail against the federal government's effort to raise the drinking age to 21, a state that required schools to give equal time to creationism, a state that until last winter outlawed Sunday hours for stores. It is as if the state of bayous and alligators, of Mardi Gras and hurricaines, spoke a language incomprehensible to other Americans...