Word: nose
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...differences with Republican Leader Bill Knowland (as minority leader in 1953, Johnson adjourned the Senate right out from under Knowland's nose, the worst insult that can befall a majority leader), but the two have come to work together in cooperation and mutual respect. One night during the recent debate on postal-rate increases, Frank Carlson, in charge of the bill for the Republican Administration, had an important appointment in home-state Kansas. He asked Johnson if the Senate could meet early and leave early so that he could catch his plane. Johnson agreed. "Thanks," said Frank Carlson...
...Guinea during World War II had a lot to do with his entering the ministry. One engine in his P-38 quit and he had to try for a forced landing on a tiny strip between foothills and ocean. His plan: to hit the strip so hard that the nose wheel would break and thus stop the plane quickly. The nose wheel "refused to snap for some reason or other," but Jackson managed to stop the plane anyway. "I got out and then my heart almost stopped. Under my wings were two big bombs: I had forgotten all about them...
...early-morning dockers, the stopwatch specialists who have heard him come back from a workout wheezing like an equine asthmatic. Silky's outraged owners brush off such canards. They admit no more than that their horse is a "roarer," i.e., an animal who clears his ears, nose and throat with a sound like a bull alligator with his tail caught in a trap. They have other health problems on their minds. Each of the two owners is a cardiac case...
Neuringer figures that a magnetic field of moderate strength (3,000 gauss) should reduce heat transfer by 28%. Greater reduction might be achieved by covering the nose of the re-entry body with a material that ionizes easily. Its ions, mixing with the air, would make it a strongly conducting plasma that would be slowed more effectively by magnetism...
Smashing Success. In Pittsfield, Mass., after her partner, flashing an intricate step, sailed his foot up and into her face, Judy Mack kept on dancing in a teen-age dance contest, won third prize and a fractured nose...