Word: thumbtacks
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...write . . . All my friends here in Combat Control would like to extend a formal invitation to the U.S.S.R. parachute-jumping team to a spot jumping contest. We don't think chalk crosses (so many feet wide) are quite sporting; we'd rather a silver dollar, thumbtack or playing card were used for a mark...
...also made Harry Truman as sore as a hoptoad in a thumbtack factory by suggesting in 1948 that the Democrats ought to get a better presidential candidate. After Truman was nominated, O'Dwyer gave him the biggest motorcycle escort ever assembled in New York, but the President, though virtually deafened by sirens, did not forgive...
...Never Been Licked (Universal) plants a bright new thumbtack on Hollywood's regional map of collegiate cinemilieus. To football-famed Texas A. & M. from the faraway Philippines comes one Brad Craig (Richard Quine). He finds hazing a dreadful ordeal, but finally decides to stick it out. Brad is assigned by a chemistry professor to guard a secret formula; it is mysteriously stolen and he is bounced out on his ear. By way of Tokyo he eventually gets to Midway and wins the Congressional Medal of Honor for helping to destroy a Japanese aircraft carrier. Death finally comes to Brad...