Word: fingernail
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...four turned over their beads to a Buddhist priest in attendance. Tojo also handed the priest his glasses and his false teeth, to give to Mrs. Tojo. (He had already sent his wife a lock of hair and a fingernail clipping as mementos-TIME...
...little man had sent his wife a lock of hair and a long fingernail clipping. This is the custom of Japanese who expect to die. Last week, under klieg lights that gleamed on his shaven head, Hideki Tojo smiled and nodded as sentence was passed upon...
...Gold. In the U.S. and British zones, democracy has a fingernail hold, and production is rising. Ruhr coal- precious as black gold for all of Europe-increased last week to 274,000 tons a day, a postwar high...
...month," she explained. Another in slacks stepped challengingly up to a guard. "He ain't here," she snapped. Still another looked blankly at the face of a corpse, but screamed when she saw its feet. The night before, she had painted her husband's toenails with red fingernail polish...
Reflectively the old man scrapes a yellow tooth with a black fingernail. "Comrade," says he, "a very old man shouldn't fret over things bygone or things to come. I only want to do business. Then all will be right...