Word: nose
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...girl sat in a bulky sweater at a great oval mahogany table, around which sat the other members of English HTb. Her nose was severe, her mouth very small, her hair straight and plain. She read in an incisive monotone...
...Pilot Robert M. Stanley of the Stanley Aviation Corp. (makers of airplane subassemblies) tackled the easy end of the problem: how to get the crew down to earth alive if their vehicle misbehaves on launching or while it is still in the atmosphere. The men will be in the nose of the ship, perched above a vast amount of explosive, corrosive, poisonous fuel. If the first-stage engines misfire, the crew will have to be shot away from the ship "with extreme promptness and at high velocity to a considerable distance." This means that the cabin must be instantly detachable...
...kind of fascinated horror through 140,000 words, most readers will probably become bored . . . at times downright sickened . . ." The New York World Telegram's Leslie Hanscom fumed that "there were moments . . . when my whole instinct was to land a Babbitt's righteous punch on the super-civilized nose of the author . . . The novel has a tone which says that, if you cannot swallow its exquisitely distilled sewage with a good appetite, then you'd better go back where you belong and read Elbert Hubbard's Scrapbook...
...true that our parents brought us up and we must not let them down, and in the minds of some, a Judge may seem just as hard-nose as our parents. But at the same time, it is just a certain that our parents and this Judge, whoever he is, must not let America's teenagers down in the future...
Oregon: In campaign's last minute, U.S. Senator Wayne Morse stuck his new (since 1955) Democratic nose in the governorship race to gig Republican Mark Hatfield by dredging up an ancient traffic charge and making Hatfield the villain. Until then, the Democratic candidate, Robert D. Holmes, was the predicted winner of a close election. In what was rated as a vote of outrage against Busybody Morse, Republican Hatfield took the statehouse...