Word: nose
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington's National Airport she murmured, "I christen you the U.S. Capitol" and smartly swung a scored, netcovered* bottle of domestic champagne against the shiny nose of an Army C-54 hospital plane. Nothing happened. Pursing her lips, Bess Truman struck again, a backhand swipe. There were nervous titters. After nine determined tries the plane's nose was dented, the bottle still unbroken. Bess Truman passed it to an Air Forces major; when he failed to break it the party admitted defeat, moved on to christen a Navy plane with another bottle. There, on Mrs. Truman...
Doenitz was calm, his tight features unchanging. Turning to Colonel General Alfred Jodl he said in a loud whisper: "It is now quite clear what is going to happen." Jodl did not answer. He was nervous. His nose reddened and purple blotches appeared on his cheeks. Doenitz and his companions entered the first-class...
...with an ax handle when he's hot, came to life next day in the match play battle at New Jersey's Essex County course. He sank a 35-footer, outdrove hard-slamming Sambo. Snead's putting meanwhile went from poor to punk, ended in a nose dive on the water-soaked greens. Nelson, six-up at the 13th, closed it out at the 33rd with the score four-and-three. That left the unofficial championship just about where it was in the first place. With a win apiece, Nelson and Snead were still wrapped...
Snigeroff's Nose. Drunkenness was regarded as an affliction rather than a misdemeanor. Nobody except Helen minded the endless consumption of a beverage brewed by "tossing sugar, flour and yeast-and sometimes a handful of rice or half-rotten fruit-into a dirty butter barrel" filled with water and allowing the mess to "make" for four days. "Don't be silly," said Thornie, dismissing Helen's alarm at the battle royal which invariably accompanied this wassail. "The boys are just having a good time. Just like kids. . .They really enjoy...
Bitterly Helen asked him who had enjoyed it when Nick Houdikoff bit off a piece of Cedar Snigeroff's nose. "Nick's wife did," answered Thornie triumphantly. "She put that piece of nose in a bottle of water, then showed it around to prove what a good fighter her husband...