Word: nose
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Regensburg prison, a violent inmate attacked Fellow Prisoner Franz von Papen, gave him a beating, reportedly busted his nose and a cheekbone...
...barreled aviation fuel, snaked through the Sandy Hook minefields one May morning. Rusty or not, she was good for 15 knots in a pinch, and sailed without convoy. Her chief engineer, an oldtime wrench-pusher named Seligman, knew just enough about high-pressure steam turbines to keep his nose out of the engine room. The men who ran the show down there were his assistants-notably Ed Greenewater, the first assistant, a sloppy, red-faced kid with an intuitive, possessive feel for engines, and Paul Jessup, the second, only half as adept mechanically but twice as inquisitive...
Around a corner in The Bronx scuttled a wild-eyed runt. The kid's tiny round head was ducked between high, skinny shoulders, his nose was bleeding, and he sobbed as he ran. After him pounded three bigger boys. One by one they gave up the chase; the runt ran too fast. He ran until he was out of sight. He is running still...
...even Paul Bunyan himself could not do without Johnny Inkslinger, the master figurer who kept a piece of rubber as big as a barrel on the end of his nose. With three shakes of his head, Johnny Inkslinger could wipe a page clean of figures. Last week Henry Kaiser tried the same vast trick...
...time he was knee-high to a fox pup, he knew nearly all there was to know about handling an ax and a rifle. He grew up long-legged and straight as a tulip tree, standing 6 feet 3 in his bare feet. He had a vast nose, a scraggly beard and a wild look in his eyes...