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Word: fingernail (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...early '20s are painfully bad, academic cubism-as awkward, in their way, as the cubist paintings of another great ideas man of our time, Marcel Duchamp. Magritte had a poor sense of color, and his drawing was mere tracing; the paint surface is as dead as an old fingernail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Enter the Stolid Enchanter | 3/5/1979 | See Source »

...cheeks were red and twitching, he was so mad. Finally, he came towards Hoffa screaming, 'If you don't get out of my shit and back off of me, you'll end up like Castellito! They won't find so much as a fingernail of yours!' Jimmy yelled, 'Bullshit!' and that's when I broke them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Jimmy Hoffa's Last Ride | 9/18/1978 | See Source »

...from Second Baseman Bill Madlock, a Dodger nemesis (he has a .342 career average against Los Angeles). The fourth game went into extra innings. The Giants stayed alive on a hit by aging Superstar Willie McCovey, indestructible and still explosive at 40, and carried to victory and a renewed fingernail grip on first place by a brand new hero, 22-year-old Born-Again Christian Rightfielder Jack Clark. Said Clark, after singling home the winning run in the eleventh inning: "This was to prove to the Dodgers and the rest of the league that we're for real...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Giants and Dodgers Tangle Again | 8/28/1978 | See Source »

...exhibition includes several famous works: "Equinoxe," the 1968 "Le Grand Sorcier," "Le Penseir Puisant," and two comparatively recent pieces, "Maja Negra" and "Le Sarrazin a I'Eoile Bleu," where Miro has added details by scratching into the paper with his fingernail, exposing the paper...

Author: By Diana R. Laing, | Title: A Surrealist's Metamorphosis | 6/5/1978 | See Source »

This was a true heartbreaker. Fayer swam the fastest qualifying time, and indeed the fastest time of the day (0:25.79), but in the final, Dartmouth's Nancy Gildan came up with an excellent turn and won it by, well, a fingernail...

Author: By Daniel Gil, | Title: Yale Wins Women's Ivy Swim; Crimson Fades to Fourth Place | 2/14/1978 | See Source »

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