Word: nasalate
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...Said a nasal little lady professor: "Now, your first-grade paper must be nine by twelve inches in size, and the lines must run the length of the page. Some school systems use eight by ten-and-a-half paper, but I think that's a bad mistake. Before that, you use a crayon. Now, why do you think you use a crayon...
Died. Mohammed V, 51, King of Morocco; following nasal surgery; in Rabat (see FOREIGN NEWS...
Died. Cedric Adams, 58, portly, nasal-voiced commentator, folksy columnist (In This Corner) for the Minneapolis Star for 25 years, who once simultaneously ran 54 radio shows, seven columns and eight television programs a week on chatter, news, and an uncanny ability to catnap at will; of a heart attack; in Austin, Minn...
...patients, Jacobson found a standard pattern: when children, they had rejected femininity as their mothers inadequately personified it, embraced masculinity as their amiable fathers represented it. Sometime during adolescence, they decided they wanted to be women after all. The resultant conflict, said Jacobson, was expressed by a sense of nasal deformity (even if a serious deformity did not exist), because the women identified their noses with those of their fathers, felt that they were distastefully masculine. Women patients often told Jacobson that their noses "would look better on a man's face"; a few went to considerable lengths...
...achieved professional success. Said Jacobson: "They came at a time when success in their chosen work highlighted a sense of frustration and block in their emotional capacity for dealing with courtship and marriage." Women over 30 also had a common motive: marital strain. "Correction of a longstanding sense of nasal deformity," said Jacobson, "is felt by these patients as a necessary preliminary to coping with the threat of depression evoked by their interpersonal difficulties...