Word: nose
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nose. Near Denver, Highway Patrolman Floyd Moore stared at the auto bowling along just ahead of him, listened to a radio description of a stolen car. Sure enough. In Dallas, Patrolman R. H. Lunday gave an autoist a ticket and asked for his phone number. The autoist thought fast, reeled off a number, promptly learned that it was Lunday...
...There she is, right on the nose!" Lieut...
...between them was the way they spelled their names. In school, in scrapes, in games, in the R.A.F., they were always together. Together they were in a big Berlin raid, Sid as a gunner, Syd as a bombardier. Together they came back, Sid in his turret, Syd in the nose. Both were dead. In flag-draped coffins, side by side, they were taken home together...
...Doherty, widow of the utilities magnate (Cities Service). Seated among Manhattan's beauty and chivalry in the Metropolitan's bar, over a bottle of vintage '28 champagne, plump, vigorous Mrs. Doherty treated a press photographer to a fine demonstration of the simple, or one-ply, nose-thumb. The gesture had true sweep, high photogenic quality (see cut), and was generally conceded to be the most striking cultural event in the Metropolitan since Lawyer Richard Knight's historic cartwheel in the same room (TIME, Dec. 11, 1939)From the Met's first week it seemed obvious...
Peewee Maloney is a little trick with a turned-up nose, brown hair and wide smile -neat and cute as a .22 bullet. Back home in Rochester, N.Y., she had been cashier in a cafeteria, until she persuaded the Army to make an exception to its 5-ft. rule and let her in the WAC, all 4 ft. 11 in. of her. As Private Margaret H. Maloney she was soon stationed in North Africa...