Word: nose
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...supported there by a heavy Republican majority. But Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson took it over and nearly succeeded, with softening amendments, in making it a Democratic Party bill. That bill pleased hardly anyone: Southern popular sentiment was clearly against any bill at all, while the North held its nose at the weak Johnson version. In the final result, it .was House Republicans and Assistant Attorney General Bill Rogers who managed to put some teeth back into the bill...
Whistling at 140 m.p.h. down a runway at the U.S. Naval Air Test Center on Maryland's Patuxent River, a Grumman F9F-8T fighter-trainer barely had its nose wheel off the concrete when a short, stocky R.A.F. officer riding in the seat behind the pilot got the signal to bail out. Flying Officer Sidney Hughes reached above his head and yanked a handle. The pull snapped down a black curtain (to protect his face from wind blast) and fired three cartridges beneath his seat. Half a second after Hughes was catapulted straight out of the plane, another cartridge...
...vise, whose jaws were both inflation and deflation, whose effects make a case study for economists. From the headquarters of roads from Boston to San Francisco came gloomy news of a sharp setback in earnings: a 40% decline for the Pennsylvania, the nation's largest railroad, a 60% nose dive for the New York Central, 15% for the Santa Fe, 25% for the Rock Island, 11% for the Boston & Maine. All told, said the Association of American Railroads, railroad profits for the first six months of 1957 have declined $61 million from 1956 levels. Worse yet, twenty-one Class...
...high collars called 'nose-hiders'-they eliminate breathing and also talking. These will be welcomed by men who are tired of listening...
...meditate and put on a rubber tire with three bottles of beer." Cozzens' sole hobby is a pop record collection, vintage 1920 to 1927-Al Jolson, Paul Whiteman-which he plays by the hour on his hi-fi set. "Most of the time I just sit picking my nose and thinking...