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Word: nails (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Anyway you look at it, tomorrow's outdoor Heptagonal Championships at Yale figure to be a three-way tooth and nail battle between Yale, Cornell, and the varsity...

Author: By William C. Sigal, | Title: Crimson, Yale, Cornell Appear Equal in Heps | 5/17/1957 | See Source »

...East Riding folk refuse to do the same, and gossip begins to sputter. Roger and Ida resolve to stay out of each other's way, but it is a promise made between a magnet and a nail. With Ida at his side, a shaken but straightforward Roger deals Louisa a crushing blow: "It seems as if her and me can't help it, Lou, can't keep apart, we shall have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tempest in the East Riding | 5/6/1957 | See Source »

...noting that he had lost to the organi zation candidate by only 52,000 votes, Forbes altered his tactics. He continued to nail outstretched hands, and mailed out family-photo Christmas cards to more than 5,000 New Jersey voters. But he also spent the time between elections cultivating the Garden State's G.O.P...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW JERSEY: Grooming for the Groom | 4/29/1957 | See Source »

...Nail by nail, board by board, the special Senate committee headed by Arkansas Democrat John McClellan continued hammering together its case against U.S. labor racketeering. As in the first week of its Washington hearings (TIME, March 11), the McClellan committee centered its attention on the activities of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters in Portland, Ore., and again the star witness was Portland Racketeer James B. Elkins. Last week Elkins-and some corroborating witnesses-told how Teamsters' representatives, stymied in their original efforts to open the city to vice, simply took over the municipal government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: The Teamsters Take Over | 3/18/1957 | See Source »

...Crimson's chances of gaining one of the Eastern spots at the N.C.A.A. Tourney may be decided next Wednesday. The varsity (19-3) faces Princeton with an opportunity to nail down the Ivy title; and Clarkson (14-1) will meet St. Lawrence...

Author: By Bruce M. Reeves, | Title: Hockey Team Outscores Yale, 4-2; Needs Only Tie to Win Ivy Crown | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

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