Word: nails
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ordinary work-a-night witch. Flowing flaxen tresses, bare feet, bare arms, and nearly bare breasts contained with difficulties by a tattered homespun give this young enchantress a special magic of her own. The prudish townswomen's resentment of the mysterious forest-girl drives them to nail up strangled birds to ward off her heathen charms...
Threatened by the German invasion, the leaders switched to a policy of "limited freedom." This was continued in a decree in November 1954 which granted a "considerable degree of religious freedom." Gezork suggested this was because the leaders realized that religion, like a nail, went deeper the more one pounded. The number of priests has increased, however, to 35,000 today...
...Nail-Chewing Functionaries. For the most part, the funds are spent with a sense of responsibility by Congressmen and their staffs educating themselves. But there are some who ride the Uncle-pays plan like a gravy train. Last week, in offices scattered all over the world. U.S. diplomatic and information officials were recounting a nightmarish story of two such hellbent freeloaders, both staff members of the Senate Appropriations Committee. They are Grace Johnson, fiftyish, tough-talking, weight-throwing $10,000-a-year staffer and longtime friend of Louisiana's Democratic Senator Allen J. Ellender; and her companion, Mississippi-born...
...Parade) and newspaper (New York's defunct PM. Chicago's Sun-Times) publisher and rich man's grandson; after brain surgery; in Manhattan. Chicago-born Marshall Field was educated at Eton and Cambridge, never learned to bear comfortably the estimated $168,000,000 he inherited from nail-hard department store Tycoon Marshall Field I, once said: "If I cannot make myself worthy of three square meals a day I don't deserve them." Rich Boy Field won a captaincy and a Silver Star in World War I, for a few years half-heartedly played the playboy...
...Spiral Nail. Jones & Laughlin has brought out a nail with spiral threads, which has 50% to 200% greater holding power and weighs less than smooth nails. When the "Ardox" nail is driven, it does not cut wood fibers, but pushes them aside, reduces wood splitting and physical labor. Fewer kegs of Ardox nails are needed for building projects, thus cutting costs...