Word: nose
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rayburn's aides marshaled the Democratic troops. Telephones jangled all over Capitol Hill. Every Democrat was polled, cajoled, threatened. Majority Leader John McCormack paraded the fence sitters up and down the corridors, arguing endlessly. Alabama's Rains took a nose count, thought he smelled victory. "I tell you those Democrats are really burning," said Republican Whip Les Arends. "They are really putting the heat...
...Smith's four-year-old Hillsdale was bunched with three other horses with only a dozen yards to go in the California Stakes at Hollywood Park, Calif., but responded to the whipping of Jockey Tommy Barrow, won by a nose in a driving finish. The $66,800 winner's share increased Hillsdale's lifetime earnings to $415,095, gave him first place in 1959 winnings with $270,250. ¶ In a dual track meet between Oklahoma and Oklahoma State at Norman, Okla., for the first time in college track history three vaulters cleared...
...rose from Florida's Cape Canaveral, blazed its way out of the atmosphere and 6,000 miles downrange toward the South Atlantic. There a squadron of C-54 transport planes treaded expectantly in the lower air. Soon one of the crews saw the bright glow made by the nose cone's reentry into the atmosphere. A parachute opened, and the cone drifted down to the sea. When it hit the surface, a small balloon inflated automatically, keeping the cone afloat. Guided by the C-545 and a homing transmitter in the cone itself, a destroyer fished the cone...
...Status Seekers. It was almost like the Mad Hatter's tea party, with the Western Three pouring tea on the Russian dormouse's nose. Seemingly nothing could shake Russia's taciturn Andrei Gromyko. And then at last, at 3:45 p.m., Gromyko, without a flicker of emotion, withdrew his demand that the Germans sit with the Big Four. The three Westerners then agreed to adopt a round table, but with the two German groups sitting apart, at separate tables. How close? Gromyko took six pencils and laid them side by side. "Just this far," he said stolidly...
Auburn-haired, athletic, with brilliant, hypnotic eyes and a prominent nose and chin, Aimee sometimes looked more like a female impersonator than a woman. She had been married twice-to Holy Roller Missionary Robert Semple, who died in China, and to U.S. Grocery Clerk Harold McPherson, whom she divorced-and had a child by each marriage. At her flamboyant services, surrounded by choirs, bell ringers and 80-piece xylophone bands, Aimee most often preached in filmy white celestial robes but occasionally acted out liturgical tableaux dressed as a policeman, fireman or fisherman. Her carelessness about money was sternly held...