Word: nails
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WASHINGTON--The Reagan administration, saying it has a strong diplomatic signal from Moscow, is about to call for a special meeting of U.S. and Soviet negotiators to try to nail down an agreement to reduce nuclear missile warheads in Europe to 100 on each side...
...last turn of the day's last race, Wagner found himself in fifth place with less than 50 yards to go--but he made a strong surge to overtake Brown's Bob Fryer and nail down the fourth-place finish...
...right. "Rutger," I said, "You've hit the nail on the head. The press has shamed itself. Why, even if I was given the chance, I wouldn't go to Disney World...
...bite my nail. I tie my shoe. I make sure old shifty-eyes hasn't taken my wallet. I pull out a strand of my hair and inspect the follicle...
...Administration officials were privately bitter that the U.S. seemed to have caved in to Kremlin bullying. But they were overruled by none other than Ronald Reagan, whose compassion in this instance overpowered his visceral anti-Sovietism. Reagan personally approved the arrangement Thursday afternoon (it took nearly 24 hours to nail down) for the simplest of reasons: he had been touched by the plight of Daniloff, and just wanted to get the reporter sprung. Said the President: "We are so relieved and happy that Mr. Daniloff is out of his 8-by-10-ft. cell, which he was sharing with someone...