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Word: nails (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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After the '85 Crimson gridders crucified their Worcestor counterparts by scoring 21 points in 41 seconds (after trailing 20-7 with just over three minutes remaining) to nail down a 28-20 triumph, the contest was immediately dubbed "The Miracle at The Cross...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Football Prospectus 1986: Over 100 Years of Hands-On Action | 9/22/1986 | See Source »

...Earle is 31,"the tour bus is home," and making it in country music needs a young man's grit after all. But MCA has given him a seven-album contract, and some material for the new record is getting an airing in concert. Those new songs nail a listener right to the spot. Steve Earle is already fulfilling his promise even before he has stopped being promising. No time to waste...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Steve Earle: The Color of Country | 9/8/1986 | See Source »

...American Highway as it crosses Chile, the usual truck traffic was missing, and the few cars on the road had to dodge miguelitos, nail-studded objects intended to puncture tires. In the capital of Santiago and other cities, thousands of workers waited in vain for public buses and taxis that never came. Downtown shops in Santiago were closed, and there was such a dearth of traffic that some of the smog that envelops the city lifted, allowing peaks of the Andes to be seen to the east...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chile Striking Back | 7/14/1986 | See Source »

...think there was a "false fingernail coordinator," in case someone broke a nail...

Author: By Jennifer M. Oconnor, | Title: Missing the Point | 7/8/1986 | See Source »

...many of us moaned out loud when I.B. Cohenof Nat Sci III assaulted us with the worst everexam questions? "What was the final temperature ofthe beaker of water into which fell the steel ballthat had bounced off the nail after it rolled andfell off the table which was X inches off thefloor...

Author: By Charles DUFORT Ravenel, | Title: That Was the College Then, This Is Now | 6/2/1986 | See Source »

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