Word: nasally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rhoda Wenger was fed through nasal tubes. To find foods that her stomach would accept, dietitians tried everything: vitamins in liquid form, juices, beef broth. Sometimes the formula was changed several times...
...hopping" horses; into limbo went the old standbys, heroin and cocaine, which mandatory saliva and urine tests showed up crystal clear. Inventive horsemen-and few are short on imagination-promptly began a painstaking search for a magic hop that would leave no telltale evidence. Stories and jokes about new nasal sprays and rectally-administered stimulants soon became standard race track shop talk...
Last week, nasal sprays were no joke for Silent Tom Smith, the man who developed Seabiscuit and this year trained Cosmetic Queen Elizabeth Arden Graham's top money-winning stable ($512,454 in purses). New York's vigilant Jockey Club, having found some dopey spray in one of his horses, banned Trainer Smith from U.S. tracks for a year...
Rhinoplasty, Dr. Daley thinks, is a desperate expedient, justified only if 1) a nose cannot be breathed through, 2) a nose is so monstrously nasal that it attracts attention to itself instead of being a harmonious part of the face or 3) a nose is spoiling its owner's life (or he thinks it is) by making him feel unhappy...
...know, meine Volksgenossen"-there was the nasal Austrian accent-"I know, meine Volksgenossen, what this war is demanding of you. ... I, more than anybody else, know. ... I also know that German towns will again rise from the ruins . . . more beautiful than ever...