Word: nose
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wording, his timing, and his manner of self-expression, "but to allow these marginal comments to provoke us into denouncing the central burden of his argument-that peace has depended in the past and still depends on American willingness to fight-is to cut off England's nose to spite Dulles' face...
...spite of what may be called a broad style, Kokoschka is aware of details, even of what appear to be insignificant things like the way the line of the eyelid moves into the angle of the nose. Kokoschka explains, "I will teach them to see again; this is the faculty lost to modern society...
Late one night last week, a slight, balding man with a hawklike nose, wearing a sharp gabardine suit and the air of an English butler, emerged from the jailer's office at the East Cambridge, Mass, jail and barked, "Gimme an aspirin, will you?" He was Joseph James ("Specs") O'Keefe, 47, and he had been talking almost continuously for three days. Outside, on the streets of Boston and all over the U.S., newspapers repeated Specs' story in huge headlines and minute detail; after six years, the $2,775,395 Brink's Inc. robbery, the largest...
...easel when a thunderstorm came up. I decided nothing was going to stop my painting, and hurriedly got my huge beach umbrella and my raincoat. I protected my legs with a portfolio, the wind holding it in place. And so I painted with my nose almost on the paper, with thunder crashing, boughs breaking and rain falling in torrents. A glorious few hours when I seemed to become part of the elements. When I was done at late afternoon, the picture was complete. It seemed as if it had materialized under its own power...
Then the man in the trench coat and horn-rimmed glasses, with a prize-fighter's nose, came through the crowd and shook his hand. "You were terrific out there," he said. "I'm very pleased with you, Billy." Bill Cleary, who set an NCAA scoring record last year with 89 points, wearing now an Olympic jersey instead of a Crimson one, replied simply: "Thank you, Mr. Weiland...