Word: nose
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Seaman Jeffrey Cohee said that a guard once smeared his eyes with shaving lotion, on another occasion ordered him to say something and then shoved a pencil up his nose for saying...
...spent an average of less than $1,000,000 a year on long-range ballistic-missile projects. The Eisenhower Administration decided in 1954 to push ballistic-missile development, after the physicists decided that they could make a hydrogen warhead light enough to be carried in the nose of a missile. The Russians, well along on missilery with or without an atomic warhead, had a head start that the U.S. urgently needed to narrow. In mid-1955 that need was still urgent...
...gamble, but last spring he thought he saw a sure thing. For a mere $1,500,000 fee, he could get the Federal Census Bureau to count the city's population; certainly with growth everywhere New York was bound to show an increase-and each new nose would entitle the city to an additional $6.75 in state aid in the interval before the regular 1960 census count. The contracts were signed, the counters went to work, and Wagner saw to it that the census takers even counted in the crew of an aircraft carrier and the cast...
...Trans-Siberian Express chugged back to Moscow last week, the party line began to fray. Complained self-described "Rightist" Tyler at the U.S. embassy: because he had tried to dampen their enthusiasm for Red China, two of his fellow travelers-for-the-truth had bopped him on the nose...
...firing. It had several stages, but Pravda, giving few details, said merely that when the carrier reached several hundred kilometers altitude and was moving parallel to the earth's surface at 8,000 meters per sec. (about 18,000 m.p.h.), the satellite proper was detached from its protective nose-cone and the burned-out rocket. The three objects separated slowly, following slightly different orbits...