Word: nails
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wearing his purge record like a boutonniere and his physical handicaps with a winning courage, the temporary Premier overlooked no opportunity to nail down his job. In the tradition of prewar Premiers, he hurried to the great Ise shrines to notify the Shinto gods of his election-a gesture of nationalism and a studied slap at foreigners who had tried to reduce the chauvinistic role of Shintoism. He distributed promises-cheaper fertilizer, lower taxes, more jobs. But most of all he appealed to Japan's reawakened pride as a nation, able once-more to stand on its own, free...
...Nail. All in all, Williams has added thousands of entries that have never before appeared in a Spanish-English dictionary. More important he feels that by working alone he has been able to eliminate many of the inconsistencies of team-written dictionaries. If "hit the nail on the head" appears in one half of his book he makes sure that dar en el clavo appears in the other. Nor does he make the mistake of treating greed and greediness under one entry, while placing thrift and thriftiness...
...looks as if you hit the nail on the head in your Jan. 31 article on the Upper Colorado project when you said, "The people of [the Upper Colorado River Basin] want water; how they get it is less important." If it means the irrevocable destruction of good scenery, that is relatively unimportant. If it means the needless encroachment on dedicated territory, that is secondary. If it means setting a precedent for the exploitation of whatever assets any park has to offer, that is too bad, but it must be done. This whole argument hinges on the very questionable assumption...
...months, a flood of complaints about misleading radio-TV commercials poured into the offices of the New York Better Business Bureau and Kings County (Brooklyn) District Attorney Edward S. Silver. To nail the offenders, Silver had policemen and policewomen pose as residents of apartments that were wired with tape recorders. The couples would answer the commercials, record the salesman's spiel when he called on them...
...week the U.S. Senate met to consider censure action against Wisconsin's Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, and the ascension to judgment's throne was rocky indeed. Within minutes after the chaplain finished his opening prayer, Joe McCarthy was fighting the only way he knows how, with tooth, nail and knee, to make the debate one of the most acrimonious and personally bitter in Senate history...