Word: nails
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...along a batch of folders on finance, government, industries, etc., added some selected material from the periodicals file. As the story progressed, checking points inevitably arose on which the researcher needed specific information : the number of banks, art galleries, insurance companies, etc. Some of the figures were hard to nail down. But the end result was in paragraphs like the following...
...heavy-duty fighting against Red propaganda is done in political talks, dramatic features, and in what Voice men call "shirttails," i.e., short comments tacked on the end of news broadcasts. When the Voice rushes in, shirttails flying, to nail a Russia lie with clear facts & figures, it is often at its best, speaking with firmness, dignity and common sense...
When she was five, an older boy playfully threw Betty off the end of a pier. She hit a nail in one of the pilings and snagged her left cheek, near the eye; the scar is still faintly noticeable. "It made my inferiority complex worse," says Betty. "The kids called me 'Bad-eye Bodie' and nicknames like that, that hurt real bad. So I acted fresh and tomboyish, as if I was tougher than anybody on the block...
...TIME, Dec. 13, 1948). Du Pont sees a big future for Orlon in auto tops, tents, etc. Still looking for new products to research, Du Pont recently polled its own employees. Some of the things they would like: a tarnish-proof coating for silverware, a chip-proof nail polish, runproof and snagproof stockings, a way to predetermine the sex of babies...
...finding an old man's strangled body in a closet. "Why . . . it's as easy as A B C," he assures the trembling murderer. "You get a rope and make a noose, and you put it . . . round his neck . . . And then you hang him up on a nail or something. He mustn't touch the ground, of course . . . They'll say he hanged himself, don't you see?" And in two ticks the corpse is dangling from the nail and the horrified murderer is running away through the dark yard, pursued by a polite...