Ram the claw into the nail shank as close as possible to the wood and rock it sideways. Then repeat the process, pulling the ...

Working up from the simple idea of a nail in a piece of wood and adjusting the pitch by hammering the nail farther into the wood, [Nicolas] expanded the idea. With careful planning and tuning ...

In the 1920s, author Erich Maria Remarque in his novel “All Quiet on the Western Front” imagined how nails would continue to grow so long after death that they would “twist themselves into corkscrews” ...

Pieces of insulation, shingles, wood, and nails were scattered across the parking lot. “We’re just trying to grasp the scope of this destruction,” Pastor Scott said. Despite the debris ...

When I began deer hunting with a bow, tree stands were constructed before the season using scrap wood and nails. My first tree stand had rickety steps and a hunk ...

Joe Minter’s “Old Rugged Cross” incorporates planks of wood and nails, and Lola Pettway made a quilt of corduroy, while Lottie Mooney’s quilt is cotton and rayon. The exhibition walls are painted ...

The structure bumped against another house before it bobbed in the waves, prompting now familiar warnings about splintered wood and nail-riddled debris. The destruction was decades in the making ...