Word: nose
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some 400 grinning natives greeted the three Washington specialists (a nose-&-throat man, an internist, a dentist). They had arrived in the Pribilof Islands, north of the Aleutians, for a quick checkup on the health of the seal hunters, who are wards of the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. The doctors found the Aleuts in generally excellent health. But they were shocked when Aleut children opened their mouths. Their teeth were bad (the dentist promptly took samples of their drinking water for analysis). Their tonsils were worse...
...collaborationists were hauled from the refuge of a jail. One was smashed across the face. His nose bled sickeningly. He began to cry. Then both were kicked downstairs, stood up against a wall by a group of resistance men, brandishing rifles and pistols. A group of U.S. photographers were told the pair was to be executed so the photographers could make pictures. TIME & LIFE'S Robert Landry protested that the men should be given a trial, at least. But the Frenchmen shouted: "We have been waiting four years for this-they are traitors...
Tommy Dorsey, trombonist, swung on Jon Hall, beautiful, bronzed cinemactor. Hall's doctor said that Hall ended up with a broken nose, cut nostril, stabbed neck, sliced head and face, requiring 50 stitches all told. Bystanders reported that Dorsey was joined in the melee by three other men. Scene: Dorsey's Hollywood apartment. Ostensible cause: Hall embraced Dorsey's wife, Actress Pat Dane...
Ashley's Book of Knots is a monument to 40 knotty years and a magnificent nose-thumb at the paper shortage. Ashley spent eleven years writing and illustrating its 620 pages. He tells the names, sources, histories and uses of 3,900 knots, supplies some 7,000 drawings to help explain how to tie them...
...strong interests were, in the main, legacies from her husband, Thaddeus Horatius Caraway, famed for his sharp nose and waspish tongue in Senate investigations. These were flood control, safety in commercial aviation and legislation against lobbies. At his death in 1931, Arkansas politicians could not agree on a successor; Mrs. Caraway was appointed to her husband's office. The next year Huey Long, eager to extend his political domain, brought his sound trucks into Arkansas and helped "the poor little widow lady" to become the first woman elected a U.S. Senator.* Thereafter, Huey Long could usually count on Senator...