Word: nose
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...face which looked down on those reports was itself like a battlefield. Everything about it was big, broad, strong. The weather had been on it, and personal suffering behind it. The huge mouth looked like command, and above it, the nose was pugnacious. The eyes were aggressive. They and their screen of brow above the weariness below were as impressive and busy-looking as a couple of task forces. The face, as it read the reports, was thoughtful...
Playwright Wilder is equally cavalier about the eternal verities. The Skin of Our Teeth is like a philosophy class conducted in a monkey house. In showing how man through the ages has escaped destruction by the skin of his teeth, the play tweaks his nose, barks his shins, musses his hair, gives him the hotfoot. It tweaks its own nose too: the philosopher implies he may be a monkey himself...
When the news of the second-front attack on North and West Africa broke last night I got out TIME of Oct. 12 with its African map on page 28. Your story hit this whole show on the nose...
...Indian National Congress party. Recently he interviewed Moslem League President Mohammed AH Jinnah, felt that the results of their conversation should be reported to the Congress party's imprisoned Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. Last week C. R., in white robes and sandals, his sunglasses on his aquiline nose, called on the Viceroy of India, Lord Linlithgow, and asked permission to see Gandhi. The tall, cool Viceroy refused...
Every Freshman with a nose for news--that olfactory commodity which characterizes every good reporter--will be welcome at the resplendent CRIMSON building at 7:30 o'clock tomorrow night, when the News Board opens its second competition of the year...