Word: nails
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...easily defatigable. In one previous election, the obscure hamlet of Aden Yaval racked up twice the votes of the capital city of Mogadishu with 150,000 inhabitants. When municipal elections came around last fall, Mogadishu's voters prepared for their battle against indelibility by emptying the stores of nail-polish remover and other ink-deleting fluids days in advance of elections. But determined experimenters soon discovered that the allegedly indelible inks could be removed by home solvents ranging from gasoline to papaya juice...
...simple drama of destinies and moralities. Father Leander Wapshot's wonderful journal (found in a trunk in the attic) recites like a Greek chorus the ancient obligations to race and region. He had taught his sons to "fell a tree, sow, cultivate and harvest, save money, countersink a nail, make cider with a hand press, clean a gun, sail a boat, etc." But Leander was defeated in his patriarch's role when his ferryboat was beached by women and turned into a gift shoppe. Leander's two sons, Moses and Coverly, were expelled from the paradisial...
...Sherlock Holmes, with illustrations of such occupational trademarks as cellist's callus (on the tip of the left pinkie) and bowler's thumb (with a thickened joint). But one anomaly, known among gypsy fortune tellers as "murderer's thumb," indicates nothing: a wide, short thumb and nail are found as often on professional golfers as on stranglers...
...Grayson to declare the President disabled. Red with rage, Tumulty snapped: "He has been too kind, too loyal and wonderful to me to receive such treatment at my hands." Tumulty and Grayson warned Lansing that if anyone tried to remove the President, they would fight him tooth and nail...
...They nail you to the cross, and it saps the enthusiasm of the followers. You've got to have a crisis...