Word: nails
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...able economists and engineers had long known that much of the Soviet economy was a joke, and started saying so. Typical was the protest about the construction of the Novo-Lipetsk steel mill. The plans took up 91 volumes comprising 70,000 pages, specified precisely the location of each nail, lamp or washstand-everything, in fact, except whether the project was economically sound. An engineer estimated perhaps half in jest that at the rate the paper-wafflers were multiplying, by 1980 the planning agencies might well employ every man and woman in the Soviet Union. One mathematician made the astonishing...
...different tack. In the murder trials, if Whitmore took the stand to repudiate his confession, prior convictions would be admissible evidence to impeach his testimony. By arrangement between the Brooklyn and Manhattan D.A.s, Whitmore was thus tried first in Brooklyn, where the nurse's identification would help nail him for attempted rape; the Brooklyn and Manhattan murder trials were scheduled to follow in ascending dramatic order...
...Delaney began talking about Robles on being arrested for killing a drug pusher. He was soon cleared ("justifiable homicide"). According to some stories, Robles readily admitted during bull sessions at Delaney's flat that he had "iced" (killed) the Wylie and Hoffert girls while burglarizing their apartment. To nail Robles, the police got a court order allowing them to bug Delaney's flat and record Robles' conversations. Delaney also wore an underarm recording device for monitoring other chats with Robles. Whether or not it stands up in court against Robles, the Supreme Court has held such evidence...
Geiger described a midwives "training meeting: "First, there was inspection of bags, during which such unsuitable tools as nail files were removed. Then the "midwives' song" was sung to the tune of "This is the Way We Brush Our Teeth...
...opening steel skirmish won, Wilson turned coolly to the next item on his agenda, an emergency "autumn budget" designed to ease Britain's painful $2 billion balance-of-payments deficit until the regular budget is drawn up in April. At the same time, Wilson saw a chance to nail down votes for a probable spring election by passing some promised social-welfare measures...