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Word: nailed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Economist Charles L. Schultze unwittingly hit the nail on the head [Nov. 19] when he referred to the "missing recession. It's out there somewhere, but nobody can find it." Our economic "advisers," who need to justify their self-fulfilling prophecies, will surely keep on trying until they do. Barbara J. Robbins Old Greenwich, Conn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Iran's Revenge | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

...fact, only after 107 minutes did the Terriers finally manage to pull out in front of the Crimson and capture a nail-biting overtime victory...

Author: By Stephen A. Herzenberg, | Title: Crimson Booters Edged In Overtime; Terriers Tally In Last Eight Minutes | 11/7/1979 | See Source »

...arguments to those that had been heard many times. Paul Nitze, former SALT negotiator and perhaps the nation's leading SALT critic, sounded his usual warning that the enormous throw-weight (the capacity of a ballistic missile to deliver a payload) allowed the Soviet Union would "tend to nail down a dangerous strategic imbalance." He urged the Senate to postpone consideration of the treaty until the U.S. has strengthened its strategic forces. But the normally hawkish Armed Services Committee chairman, Mississippi Democrat John Stennis, replied that the Senate has devoted too much time to SALT to set it aside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: High-Level Lobbying for SALT | 10/22/1979 | See Source »

Once again, however, the lack of a second-half offense did not hurt the Crimson, as Ippolito kicked away 11 shots to save the win. Jennifer White's late goal at 23:12 put the final nail in the Big Red coffin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Field Leads Stickwomen Past Cornell | 10/13/1979 | See Source »

...seem to feel that two or three days of abstinence builds their strength. Several leading men in the 1940s, the story goes, were sabotaged by a shapely U.S. soprano who seduced them just before the curtain.) The only supernatural aid Pavarotti enlists to get himself onstage is a bent nail in his pocket, a traditional talisman of Italian singers. Fans, aware of this quirk, send inm nails by the dozens, sometimes silver or gold, dangling from chains or fasinoned into pins. But Pavarotti will use only an authentic nail from the scenery backstage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Opera's Golden Tenor | 9/24/1979 | See Source »

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