Word: nose
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lame duck Senator Cotton Ed Smith galumphed into Washington, vowed he could wreck Term IV. He organized a National Agricultural Committee, set out to "deliver the nation's farm vote" to Tom Dewey in the next five weeks. Roared metaphor-mixing Cotton Ed: "We have taken a nose dive into hell! I have great hopes that a miracle will gird up its loins and try another deal." Next day, the committee folded...
Most probable mediums (now light bombers by comparison): ¶ North American's B-25 Mitchell-apparently a nose ahead of Martin's B-26 Marauder...
Composer Francis Poulenc, whose frothy, nose-thumbing ballet and cinema music had been the rage of the prewar Left Bank, was last week the most popular musician in Paris. His latest ballet score, Les Animaux Modeles (commissioned by the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo), had been prevented from delivery by the German occupation. But when the German authorities offered to produce it at the Paris Opera, Poulenc refused coldly, maintained an unimpeachable record of resistance...
...plane's belly hit the ground. . . . Then it flopped tail over nose, onto its back. The pilot was absolutely sealed into the upside-down cockpit...
...Tommy gun nearly jammed on him. In the hustle & bustle of flip-flopping, General Antonescu was reported to have tried to make peace with the Allies first. Mihai beat his former dictator to the decision and the microphone by little more than the length of his Hohenzollern nose...