Word: nose
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last week voted to enact a $7.9 billion aid-to-education bill, overcoming a presidential no). "This has become a Government by veto," lamented Rhode Island Democrat John O. Pastore after the Senate's oil vote. "We've got the minority dragging the majority around by the nose...
First, Donleavy asks, consider the body. Putrefaction, man's constant companion, is treated under the general heading "Vilenesses Various," including paragraphs on "Bad Breath and Toothpicks," "Plate and Knife Licking" and "Discarded Hairs and Nails." But the putrefaction of the soul is of course infinitely worse. Holding his nose against the spiritual stench, Donleavy writes maxims on social climbing, marrying for money and the fine art of suing: "If you can spot a lawyer's letter without opening it and can return it marked deceased, this is a trump card. If you cannot suppress your desire to reply...
Cozy Homesteads. Tweaking John Bull's nose proved costly. Through the 1930s, the British government raised tariff barriers. To counter Britain's economic warfare, De Valera promoted self-sufficiency. "Ireland her own," he intoned, "Ireland her own without suit or service, rent or render, faith or fealty to any power under heaven." In 1937, the Free State declared itself a wholly independent country called Eire, thus severing the last of the links to England, and Dev became Taoiseach (pronounced tee-shock) or Prime Minister...
...peruse the Register for hours in search of a name or (with the help of the Student Directory to be published in October) a telephone number. Perhaps it is time for the editors of the Register to consider a new system of organization, perhaps various facial features--chin curvature, nose length, or the like...
...wife Sue returned from a noontime shopping trip to find an intruder in their Northwest Washington apartment. The man warned her not to scream or run; she did both. He tackled her in the hallway and, as Ray says, "just beat the hell out of her," breaking her nose, jaw and several ribs. She was in the hospital for eleven days and required plastic surgery. Her attacker was never found. Last May Mrs. Ray died of a heart disorder that was unrelated to the attack...