Word: nails
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While in law school, Goldberg worked part time as a clerk in a Chicago law office. Summers, he signed on as a construction laborer, once stepped on a rusty nail and had to wait out the then manda tory period of a week before he could collect workmen's compensation. He could not afford the loss of pay. "Ever since," he recalls, "I have not been friendly to the idea of waiting periods. Family needs don't wait...
...London shop sells a fine cut-glass Georgian decanter, circa 1770, for $15; or, for the collector's library, Discovery of a World in the Moone, written in 1638 by Bishop Wilkins of Chester, for $75). And certified antiques are items that age cannot wither nor Customs nail-they are still 100% duty-free...
Philadelphia and Detroit also reported an alarming increase in the number of attacks against policemen. In Los Angeles, where such assaults have almost tripled in recent years, some 300 cop fighters were prosecuted in the past year; their weapons ranged from nail-studded boards to soggy garbage and (in a home for delinquent girls) bedpans. On Memorial Day, a mob of 300 set upon 75 cops in a fist-swinging riot at Griffith Park started by a hassle over a teen-ager who had stolen a ride on a merry-go-round. Some weeks later in suburban San Gabriel, when...
During World War II, he joined the OSS, helped nail the famous Nazi spy, "Cicero" (who was memorialized in the movie Five Fingers). In 1950 "Beedle" Smith called Dulles to Washington for what was supposed to be a six-months' tour of duty. He never left...
...chose Agilulf, the Duke of Turin, her late husband's brother-in-law. For his coronation as King of the Lombards, Pope Gregory the Great lent the sacred Iron Crown, which supposedly bore a nail from the Cross. The Pope had good reason, so the legend goes, to show Theodolinda this special favor. A fervent Roman Catholic, she persuaded her husband and most of his subjects to abandon the Arian heresy. For the first time in decades, a religious peace settled over the Lombards, and crime virtually disappeared...