Word: nailing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...place his i.d. in a thick paper cover to keep the embossing from melting and then run the card through the laminator. He then would have gently traced over the embossing on the front with a sharp edge, such as the tip of a nail file to recreate the indentations...
...night the Supreme Court struck down the California statute that the San Diego police had used to nail Lawson for vagrancy, Lawson, who was called the California Walkman in headline shorthand, was all over the networks, sauntering, as the news programs had it, wherever he pleased. He said at the time, "If you are one of those individuals who, over coffee and the morning paper, says, 'This is terrible. Somebody ought to do something about this,' you will probably see the person who should do something when you look in the mirror to shave...
...methodology is to start from a concrete case, nail it, and document it thoroughly. I shall now document some of the things to which I object in Huntington's works...
Surrounded by his people and bedecked with jewelery, the godfather of soul surprised the experts by failing to break out into spontaneous song and dance numbers--instead choosing to eat his sandwich and quietly talk with his friends. Just as I was about to nail him with a few hard-hitting questions about the intimate details of his personal life and his work, my check came...
Schools also remain faithful to a traditional notion: the nail that sticks up must be hammered down. When Sixth-Grader Tetsuya Osawa returned to Tokyo from New York City, he encountered hostility. Classmates ridiculed his Americanized way of shrugging his shoulders in answer to questions and his practice of opening doors for girls. Osawa's teacher informed the boy's mother he must "act like a Japanese person." In short order, Osawa developed a stress-related ulcer and had to be transferred to a private international school. Adults hardly fare better. Says Koji Kato, chief researcher at the National Institute...