Word: nose
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thirty-one thousand miles of flying (most of it in a big Consolidated Liberator with "Gulliver" painted on its weathered nose in Chinese,* English and Russian), through nearly a score of countries and territories flaming with war, separated Wendell Willkie from his last meeting with Franklin Roosevelt. As the President has yet to do, Willkie had met and talked with Joseph Stalin and Chiang Kaishek. He had spent 161½ hours in the air, smelled the smells of Cairo and looked down from his airplane windows at uncountable square miles of Siberian vastness. He had seen American soldiers in many...
...peacemaker tried to smooth things over, got so wrought up himself that he threatened to throw Okin out of the room. An aged shareholder yelped that he had paid $4,000 for stock now worth only $12.50. He shook his fist right under President Murphy's twitching nose, demanded: "How do I get my money back...
...race problem" at home. Ninety per cent of Britain's citizens had never actually seen or talked to a black-skinned human being before. America's polite, liquid-voiced, smartly uniformed Negro soldiers were a surprise, a pleasure, and a happy opportunity for them to thumb the nose of moral self-righteousness at the U.S. Britain's hospitable small homes were thrown open to white & black alike...
...Manhattan, Carl Leila patiently explained his wife's condition to police: "I am an artist. I am very temperamental. During the discussion over our matrimonial problems, I became emotionally unstrung. I bit off the tip of her nose...
...essayed no vaulting rhetoric, embraced no queer philosophy. He does not have to. While other playwrights have floundered or gone too far afield to dramatize the war, he has been the first to realize that its most compelling-and most communicable-story lies right under every one's nose. He has simply set down the ubiquitous story of the U.S. today-a kind of Everyman in khaki. He has told of young Quizz West (William Prince), a farm boy who leaves his girl (Mary Rolfe) and his family to become a soldier. Quizz goes to training camp and then...