Word: nose
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Secret. As the telephone began to ring at Papago Park, the camp's tall, grey-haired commander, Colonel William A. Holden, knew for the first time that 25 prisoners, all ardent Nazis, had escaped under his nose. Guards soon discovered camouflaged holes in the fence. Then, two days after the break, they discovered a tunnel which opened in an outdoor coal shed, led 200 feet to the bank of a deep irrigation canal...
Lawyers in U.S. Judge John C. Knox's court had sung the praises of Willie and George well. It had taken considerable temerity, they pointed out, to testify against such Chicago mobsters as Louis ("The Man to See") Campagna, Frank ("The Immune") Maritote and Charles ("Cherry-Nose Joy") Gioe. This was convincing to Judge Knox, who freed Willie three years and George two years before they would normally be released for good behavior. Their prison behavior, incidentally, had been magnificent. Said Willie's lawyer: "He has the garbage cans at Sandstone shining as they never shined before...
...when King Prajadhipok of Siam came to the U.S. for treatment of his cataract, Edgar Burchell was an expert in eye, ear, nose & throat bacteriology and pathology. It was he who determined that the little king's eye was free from dangerous bacteria and could safely be operated...
...lined khaki greatcoat and red cap, he detrained, saluted, shook hands with beaming Commissar Molotov. While Soviet newsphotographers cranked their cameras, General de Gaulle spoke into a microphone: "On behalf of the people of France, I pay homage to the gallant people of the Soviet Union." Then, his long nose and ears blue with cold, he sped to the Foreign Office's guest house...
...blood as well as he could,' made an up & down cut in the windpipe, which he wedged open with the top of a fountain pen. "Now," he said, "keep that pen in your windpipe and you'll be O.K. You can't breathe through your nose or mouth, but if you keep your windpipe open with the pen, you can breathe through the cut I made...