Word: nails
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...becoming America's day for doing odd jobs, complains James Bernard Kelley, a Long Island businessman, in the Catholic weekly America. "Houses are painted, roofs are replaced ... automobiles dismantled and polished." Three years ago Kelley got to thinking about his boyhood Sundays, when "I can never recall a nail driven or a blade of grass shorn." Kelley and his family have since done their chores on Saturdays. The result is that "our lawn was never in such good condition . . . More than that, the keeper of the lawn has never been in such good condition either...
First, France and Germany had to settle their dispute over the Saar, the rich nugget of coal and steel which both have coveted for centuries. Second, Dulles of the U.S., Eden of Great Britain, Adenauer of West Germany, and Mendes-France of France had to meet and nail down the formula for giving West Germany its sovereignty. Third, the four foreign ministers and representatives of the other five governments of the London conference must work out controls on the German armaments industry. And at week's end the 14 powers must meet to admit West Germany to NATO...
...change his sweat-drenched clothes each night immediately after speaking. He plays as much golf as he has time for (seldom more than nine holes, at an average 45 ). Almost obsessively clean (he takes three baths or showers on a busy day, has manicures to curb his nail-biting) and almost unnaturally natural, he moves through his world of hotel public rooms, charity drives, luncheons, interviews and popular adulation with anxious affability and a kind of 4-H Club charm...
...Detroit's Briggs Stadium, the Cleveland Indians edged out the Tigers, 3-2, and clinched the 1954 American League pennant. In Philadelphia the longtime (five years) champion New York Yankees scrambled for a 6-5 victory over the Athletics to nail down second place. Meanwhile, in the National League, the New York Giants moved toward the World Series, pushed from behind by the bumbling Dodgers, who, if not dead, plainly had a death wish...
...army and police circles. Premier Fazlollah Zahedi himself ordered the arrest of his chief of bodyguard as a Soviet agent. Another prize catch: Lieut. Colonel Jamsheed Mobasheri, an artillery officer regarded by his fellow officers as something of a mathematical genius. Upon his arrest, Mobasheri ripped a rusty nail from the wall and tried to open an artery. Mobasheri, it seemed, was the Red agent who developed the three codes. Another Red agent was the officer assigned to clear appointees to sensitive posts dealing with U.S. military assistance to Iran. The police security chief who screened would-be cops...