Word: nose
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...course, Captain." Stanley said. Our course lay right into the center of six converging searchlights. By now we could both hear and feel puffs of ack-ack. Root ordered the bomb-bay doors opened, gripped the wheel tighter and said: "Here we go, fellows." He pointed the nose right into the midst of the fiercest glare of lights, the worst bursts...
...kicked about the acoustics of Studio 8-H him self) biting his nails. Stokowski got a counterpunch in 1942 when he went east from California to make a bid for the U.S. premiere of Shostakovich's Seventh Symphony, and found that Toscanini had snatched it from under his nose. Last week's announcement solemnly promulgated the theory that it is undesirable for the NBC Symphony to divide its season between two conductors of such widely differing methods. (It noted no objection, however, to the Philadelphia Orchestra's Eugene Ormandy and the London Symphony's Malcolm Sargent...
Kelly Hunt, our silver-tongued Batcomm, is now known affectionately as "the Nose.' Shows what can happen when you keep your nose too close to the grindstone. Beavers, take notice...
...subsisted mostly on meat pies and cakes, regularly received dog license #1. Nuisance never walked with his nose to the ground, sniffing; he kept his eyes up, looking for sailors to follow. He had no time for officers. Admiralty estimates put Just Nuisance's friends in the service at 10,000, his contribution to naval charities through sale of his photo...
...years with the paratroopers, August Falen fell into two swamps, off a cliff, and rolled down a steep embankment, got a bad scar on his head, dislocated his right shoulder and pulled several ligaments, fractured his right knee cap, busted two ribs on his left side, bloodied his nose while being scraped along the ground by his parachute. He fainted when he reported for duty, was operated on for an infection in his left leg, saw a major of the Canadian Parachutists get cut in two in mid-air and two boys drowned in the Chattahoochee River, passed his jumping...