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...final night in Palm Springs, Cooney acknowledged that he had not looked very sharp sparring the past few days. "I don't know what's wrong with me. No boost. I'll snap out of it." Angry scrapes under his right eye and across the hump of his nose???from roughhousing in his hotel room, not in the ring?had obviously been hindering him. To protect against aggravating the cut and necessitating another postponement, he had to wear a cumbersome headgear with a blinding nose strip. He sometimes looked worse than slow, full of doubts...
...ancient sediments containing the remains of complete prehistoric environments. Organizing a team of fossil hunters, Leakey established a base camp at Koobi Fora, a mound at the inboard end of a long, crocodile-infested sand spit that curves out into the lake. Then he began following his nose???with remarkable success. Turkana has yielded the richest accumulation of remnants of man and his predecessors ever found in one area...
...plane bearing news photographers, nearly brushed the hide of the ship, aroused the nervous ire of Eckener, who frantically waved the annoying flea away, but not before excellent shots of the gaping wound in the port stabilizer had been obtained. Somewhere near the Harlem River the ship dipped her nose???notice of an impending countermarch?and turned. Through the tweedy haze she followed the Hudson and was lost to view in a brace of minutes. It was twilight when the Zeppelin, her cabin lights aglow, settled to a lower level. Lady Grace Drummond Hay peered from a window, cried, "Hello...
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Ferocity ? warm wind climbing up the front of cold ? pumelled the splitting smooth-skinned bulk. The ship's nose???in itself a mountain was torn completely from the body. Carrying seven men, including three who had left the control-cabin, it began to spin. Those of the seven who were not desperately engaged in keeping their seats astride a girder, valved gas as freely, as quickly as they could. The lost mountain spinned ? earthward. Nearing ground, Chief Machinist Halliburton fired shot into the gas envelope. Through the twilight, a farmer was signalled, caught a guide-rope, wrapped...
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