Word: nose
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...white stock, tied on his red sash, buckled on his sword, and presented himself at Henry Raeburn's Edinburgh studio on York Place. As was his custom, Painter Raeburn squinted at his subject from under his heavy eyebrows, then boldly painted in Campbell's forehead, chin, nose and mouth directly on the canvas. Four or five visits later, the portrait (opposite) was done...
...engine or supplied with gas by small rockets. Some of the gossips believe that the X-13 will never try to land on its tail -a stunt that is still not easy for the less critical, propeller-driven Pogo. Instead, they think, it will hover near the ground, nose upward, and then slowly move under an overhead framework, from which it will suspend itself like a bat landing on a roof of a cave...
...beginning of this month, the X-13 had not taken off or landed vertically. It has taken off many times, however, in the old-fashioned way, and Test Pilot Pete Girard is feeling out, at safe altitudes, its ability to hover nose up and to rise and descend vertically...
...Nose Dive. Next day Krauss's report on a trip to the zoo with two of the children and two friends grew a bit edgy: "It was embarrassing having to take little girls to the men's room." He also complained that all four kids at the zoo had insisted on, taking their shoes off, leaving him with pockets and handfuls of mixed pairs. After he got home. Patience Dion let a dozen neighborhood children into the house while Krauss was reading the bedtime story. He shooed them...
...rush-hour traffic over a goat path." Baby Ned had developed diaper rash, Melina was running a slight temperature. Sally would not eat her oatmeal, and it had looked like rain; so the wash had to be hung in the garage. Admitted the columnist: "My efficiency rating took a nose dive. I failed to get dinner started. I got the kids to bed fifteen minutes late...