Word: nose
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Supersonic flight called for entirely new wings and new controls, developed by working with electronic computers and countless wind-tunnel models. Fuselage design was an even tougher problem. When Convair's F-102 was first designed, the fuselage swept straight back from nose to tail. In the air, the F-102 was beset by mysterious buffeting as it approached the sound barrier. Only after extensive tests did engineers discover the trouble: shock waves were piling up where the wings joined the fuselage...
Leighton further added that Mrs. Brown, who lives at 80 Bank St., was "sticking her nose into other people's business." He said that if Harry's fellow workers had wanted to have a party, he would have "sanctioned" it. "That would have been their business," he continued...
Candidates who have the proverbial "nose for news" will find the newsboard competition to their liking, and will have an opportunity to match wits on almost equal terms with some of the University's most tight-lipped administrators...
Comfortably established and drinking hot tea last week in the San Diego Zoo were a pair of proboscis monkeys from Borneo. Roxanne, the female, looks like an ordinary monkey, but Cyrano, the male, has a long, drooping, flexible nose that would make the fortune of a TV comedian. Perhaps Roxanne admires the nose, but it has no use except to give Cyrano's cry a nasal, down-East twang...
Republicans, suspects Author Ives, would like to hear that as a child he "tortured frogs." No such thing. Though he twice got his nose broken in fights, Adlai loved bunnies and stray dogs, and moved a family friend to exclaim: "Why, that boy was an angel-just an angel...