Word: nails
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Sloane shows how to build a house without a nail in it that will go up and stay up for hundreds of years, how to make a bottle-glass window, a fieldstone grike, a folding ladder, a wooden tub, a cider press. Two ways to stack cordwood. A recipe for brown ink ("Boiled down walnut or butternut hulls that have been mashed first. Add vinegar and salt to boiling water to 'set' "). From king posts to roofing, Author Sloane details the construction of a covered bridge, which was an 1805 innovation. George Washington never...
...charges. "We have got it in Philadelphia, and we know what has not been done about it ... He cries in front of the courtroom and on television to try and stop any kind of investigation . . . This crown prince of failure . . . who whined and cried and fought tooth and nail to protect the grafters and corrupters...
...touching the ground, climbing from tree to tree." But Everett didn't go in too much for that sort of amusement. Says Tom, a retired employee of the local power plant: "His idea of fun came when it rained. Then he could go back out to the barn, nail a sort of platform out of some old boards, usually using nails twice too big. Then he would get up and start speaking. Preaching to himself, that's what he did." When the kids on the corner had an argument, Everett "would use words that had the other boys...
...system of production and marketing controls far more extensive than any yet seen in U.S. agriculture (see box). On this basis, it was opposed by many farmers, and therefore by many farm-district Congressmen. The American Farm Bureau Federation denounced the bill as "folly" and fought it tooth and nail...
Jill Shallcross (Olivia) tempered the usual icy tones of her role with a winsome warmth. Forbidding when she chooses to be, this Olivia can cast off her grey vizard at will, as she blows her nail wistfully and thinks of her lover...