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Word: nails (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reliever Rob Alevizos, who had come on after five, set down the Big Green without a hit to nail down the 8-4 victory...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: Crimson Pounds Dartmouth, 8-4, 10-4 | 4/14/1980 | See Source »

...either one. He is an expert equivocator. During a televised debate with critics of the election process, Beheshti somehow managed to parry their points-and then lectured them piously on the need for calm in political debates. Said one acquaintance: "He has always been like that, impossible to nail down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Beheshti Flows with the Tide | 3/31/1980 | See Source »

...disappointed freshman summed the meet up right there--big guns. The balance that Randy Reese brought with him from Gainesville enabled the squad to nail down a ton of consolation points, but their lack of medal-winners relegated the team to a back seat, while Par Arvidsson led the Bears with two wins for the second straight year...

Author: By Michelle D. Healy, | Title: Golden Bears Retain Crown | 3/31/1980 | See Source »

...with a lunchtime crowd of actors desperately vying with one another for the attention of a powerful producer, and a party where a White House staffer learns how power politics works when it leaves D.C. for L.A. Carpenter does these set pieces so well that he sometimes forgets to nail down Larson's character firmly enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Laid-Back Camaraderie | 1/28/1980 | See Source »

...released by Washington's Brookings Institution this fall concluded that "the significance of Soviet armed forces as a tool of diplomacy has loomed larger." Harvard Political Scientist Samuel Huntington agrees, noting that "detente has been dying for a very long time. What we are witnessing now is the final nail being driven into the coffin." Says Duke University Political Scientist Ole Holsti: "The invasion of Afghanistan has driven home the fact, more than anything since World War II, that whatever the Soviets mean by detente, or anything else, they are prepared to take hard action where they view the opportunity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: My Opinion of the Russians Has Changed Most Drastically... | 1/14/1980 | See Source »

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