Word: nose
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Retrieved Nose. "It is my conviction," he said in his well-advertised television speech, "supported by trusted scientific and military advisers, that although the Soviets are quite likely ahead in some missile and special areas, and are obviously ahead of us in satellite development, as of today the overall military strength of the free world is distinctly greater than that of the Communist countries...
...President ticked off the list of new U.S. weapons: missiles of all shapes and sizes for the Army, Navy and Air Force.* The jewel of his collection was on a red velvet coverlet near his desk as he spoke. It was the 4-ft. nose cone to an Army Jupiter missile. Said the President: "One difficult obstacle on the way to producing a useful long-range weapon is that of bringing a missile back from outer space without its burning up like a meteor . . . This object here in my office is the nose cone of an experimental missile...
...atmosphere was much the same when the Kennedy nose cone landed safely amid 4,000 mobbing students at the University of Kansas, and again before the party loyal at a Jefferson-Jackson Dinner in Oklahoma City (where he stood backstage with Oklahoma's Senator Robert Kerr, listening to the President's science talk on a transistor radio, hurriedly made notes and peppered Ike anew), still again before a national meeting of Young Democrats in Reno...
...latest issue for concern was the dog in the Russian satellite. "I think it's simply horrible," one of the ladies said, and wrung her hands abstractedly. "That poor puppy, whining, lonely, and petrified by the dark. And then they poison her." She wrinkled her nose...
...Mamma's Boy. An accomplished pianist, art dealer and amateur historian, Hanfstaengl looked down his cultural nose at Hitler. Not only did the man resemble a suburban barber on his day off; he could not tell a Caravaggio from a Michelangelo. Worse, he seldom paid his debts, loved to stuff himself with pastry and whipped cream, sat delightedly through three showings of King Kong. Hitler, says Putzi contemptuously, was a Muttersöhnchen (mamma's boy) whose impotence may have been caused by syphilis and who resented all those who could enjoy normal sexual relations...