Word: nails
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wukkin' on de Railroad. In the long run El Khobar is exonerated, the pianist gets the girl. The one bit which heartily commends The Desert Song to a world at war is a sizzling dancer (see cut, p. 94), by name Sylvia Operte who really hits the ouled-nail on the head...
Last week the R.A.F. Coastal Command and the U.S. Navy let out a story about one of their most important antisubmarine operations. Over the Bay of Biscay giant, white Liberators keep a constant, 24-hour patrol. They sweep back & forth in a perpetual search to nail subs before they spew out into mid-Atlantic from their pens on the French west coast. During most of the long hours the scanning eye sees only a wilderness...
...neck, listened to the results by radio, like any other citizen. Sitting in the midst of the fitful, strained conversation, he had plenty of time to reflect on the newest scandal-his alleged hand-in-glove scheming with Racketeer Frank Costello (see p. 22)-which had driven the final nail in Tammany's coffin...
...Tacks and nails were all made by hand: Thomas Jefferson kept a dozen nail makers busy at Monticello all the time, and it took as many man-hours to forge the nails for a house as it did to build it. Jeremiah Wilkinson's 1776 "invention"-putting a dozen headless tacks in a vise and hammering them all with one blow-was the talk of Rhode Island, and it was not until 1850 that a machine was invented to make "horse nails" tough enough to supplant the blacksmith...
...Yanks were tense and tired. Their hitting, never brilliant, was seriously off. The American League race had been a misnomer from August on, but this team had taken longer to nail down the pennant than any Yankee club since 1922. The only really bright spot was the pitching...