Word: nose
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Forward, in the cockpit, the pilot and copilot were wrestling with the controls to keep the big ship's nose up. They were flying blind. The needle registering altitude bounced crazily between 200 and 800 feet. The plane was bobbing too fast for the instrument to keep up. . . . I tried to swallow but couldn't. . . . My legs were numb from the hips down, partly from the pressure of the safety belt cutting into my belly, but mostly from fear...
...Europe has shrunk," observed Poet Stephen Spender in Manhattan. "It is now only a small nose on a vast body which is Asia." He turned to the subject of writing. "Journalism," said he, "has a way of killing the creative writing in a man, because . . . you have to put more and more of your thoughts into your articles, in a simplified form. . . . Soon you find you're producing a kind of perpetual Reader's Digest of yourself...
...Dublin slum. Like many other social workers who make copy of their experiences, Author Robertson sometimes commits to print anecdotes and adventures that probably sounded fine at the time but, in type, only seem strained and amateurish, like a genteel effort to make a smutty-faced child blow its nose. The savor of the subject, however, often rises above her polite intentions...
...rushed southward three times into Central America in answer to five-alarm calls. I have stood stock still in Managua's central plaza howling Periodista! Periodista! (Journalist! Journalist!) at a platoon of General Somoza's guardia who were charging across with bayonets fixed. I have smudged my nose on San Jose's cold pavements when police fired in the general direction of a mob of which I, unhappily, was one. All in vain. Somehow or other the revolutions don't seem to carry through down here any more...
...seventh sweat,' as we say. They drink tea, sweat, dry themselves with a towel and start all over again. A Muscovite has seen a lot, knows his worth, but doesn't put on airs. He has an open Russian face, not necessarily with an uplifted bulbous nose. He also has an open soul. He is not cold like Petersburg people-he is passionate and sincere. He keeps all holidays and fast days, but during Muslenitsa (butterdish time; i.e., carnival) he stuffs himself with bliny, drinks beer and vodka until he is dizzy, rides around in sleighs, shouts, plays...