Word: nailing
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...greeted each other last week in a quietly elegant villa outside Paris. It was the first meeting of the two wily, indefatigable negotiators since they hammered out their nine-point plan early last October. It was to begin what Washington hoped would be the final round of talks to nail down a firm agreement on ending the war in Viet Nam. But the round, it soon became clear, would take much more than the "three or four days" that Nixon's negotiator had forecast before the U.S. election. After six days of secret sessions and rumors of difficulties...
...with a draft agreement that turned out to be less than airtight. There is no evidence that this is so, and the whispers of a Kissinger goof could be put down to State jealousy, but they would surely increase if the President's negotiator were to fail to nail down a settlement on the second go-round. In short, some furious bargaining remained to be done before either Kissinger or Le Duc Tho could look ahead to those professorships at Harvard and Hanoi...
...narcotics kingpin engaged each other in a blazing battle-on the steps of police headquarters. The Family violence seems contagious. A woman who testified against another major dealer in a grand jury hearing was found slain in Indianapolis. Her common-law husband was shot five times, but lived to nail his two assailants, whose ties to The Family were at best conjectural. Said one investigator: "These guys are hardly professionals. Can you imagine a Syndicate murderer not waiting around to make sure the guy is dead...
Penn plays its defensive backs deep and blitzes the corner back into the flow of any outside play hoping either to nail the sweep of overwhelm the option passer before he can get rid of the ball. Thus calls for a good short passer reading quickly and throwing into the flat which means that Crone may finally he relegated to the bench. Restic quarterback during the week but he has been saving You're going to see mute of Jimmy Stockel a little more emphatically this week...
...went into villages after they dropped napalm, and the human beings were fused together like pieces of metal that had been soldered. Sometimes you couldn't tell if they were people or animals. We have jets that drop rockets, and in the shells they have penny nails. Those nails-one nail per sq. in. [over an area] the size of a football field-you can't believe what they do to a human being...