Word: nose
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that fat Francisco Franco's clock is close to striking twelve, on the nose of the news comes Isabel de Palencia's account of the men & women who ran away to fight another day for freedom. Smouldering Freedom, is partly an updating of her own earlier autobiography (I Must Have Liberty), partly a picture of Mexico's "Pilgrim Spain" of Republican exiles...
Peace had hit the services like another Pearl Harbor. But, as War Secretary Stimson pointed out, there were "2,250,000 trained Japanese soldiers in the home islands alone, and an equal number" in other Pacific and Asiatic territory. The U.S. must disarm these men, and ships that nose into Japanese islands must be combat-loaded...
Eslanda saw everything, from the local jail, which was "clean, pleasant and sanitary," to "lovable pygmies." At last a 120-year-old native, "her eyes glazed with a film of age," insisted that "my hair, eyes, nose, and 'especially my spirit' were pure African." But while Eslanda was trying to become primitive, all the natives she met were hoping to become civilized. They feared that it would take "1,000 years." Eslanda, getting in a bit of a plug for ideology, told them that the Soviet Union had civilized its primitives in a mere ten or 20 years...
...m.p.h. Stories of its vast speed include one that a P-80 was flown from California to New York in three hours and 57 minutes. (Best previous nonstop time: six hours, 39½ minutes). Its power is a kerosene-burning jet engine: it has no propeller. Its round nose houses six 50-cal. machine guns. On its wings it can carry either bombs or fuel tanks. Wings and torpedo-like fuselage are painted and polished to the slickness...
...also induced Lord Rothermere to tilt his nose a little more toward the grindstone. After his father's death in 1940 he began showing up at Northcliffe House at 10 in the morning, stayed till after 6 at night. The policy of the Daily Mail, which had been friendly to fascism in his father's time, supported the anti-fascist war, at times seemed hostile to the U.S., wobbled along apparently undecided whether to go right or left...