Word: nose
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Shrill Opponents. A mild-mannered ear, nose and throat specialist, Hopp, along with his board, was accused by the grand jury of amateurism and weakness in the face of attack by "small, shrill groups of opponents." The report pointedly suggested that "more than mere citizenship be considered as qualification for election to this board...
...street intersected the chief thoroughfare of the quarter, three old men sat in a doorstoop. One wore a huge blue overcoat whose holes would lead one to believe that it dated back to his service in the Chaco War that Bolivia fought with Paraguay in the 1930s. His nose was of the typical Aymaran variety--long and hooked--which lent a slight touch of brutality to his appearance. As he saw me pass and glance at him and his friends, the ex-soldier grabbed a bottle the man next to him was raising to his lips, and, holding...
Public financing of presidential elections would relieve a national concern magnified by Watergate: the unhealthy dependence of major candidates on large private donations. In 1971, Congress passed legislation that amounted to a kind of camel's nose of public financing. It permitted each taxpayer to check a box on his income tax form to indicate that $1 of his taxes ($2 for a couple filing jointly) should go into a fund for presidential campaigns...
Nothing was ordinary about Bernard DeVoto. Even his homeliness was spectacular, compounded of defiantly bulging eyes and a nose broadened in a baseball accident. Girls from Ogden, Utah, remembered him all their lives as "the ugliest, most disagreeable boy you ever saw." Also the smartest...
...Uncle Sam hat and costume and the forcefully extended index finger easily evoke the World War I recruiting poster. The face, though out of context, is similarly recognizable: the gimlet eyes, bowling-pin nose and mashed-potato jowls could only be a particularly cruel caricature of Richard Nixon. And the message boldly lettered around the cartoon character provides a jolt that shakes the drawing's dissonant elements into place: YOU NEED...