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Word: nose (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...disclosed that during Bush's eight years as Vice President, Gray made as much as $50,000 a year as chairman and a director of his family's $500 million communications company, while collecting his pay as Bush's counsel. Bush did not fire Gray, or even hold his nose. The President defended the legality and benign intent of his aide, showing the same kind of myopia toward one of his own that got Ronald Reagan in trouble. By midweek, however, Gray had resigned from the corporation and put his assets in a blind trust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Friendship Has Limits | 2/20/1989 | See Source »

...added that when local aid funds are cut, which seems likely in the current squeeze, "local education will probably take it on the nose. Kids come last in local politics. That's the sad fact...

Author: By Jonathan E. Gross, | Title: Dukakis Faces Tough Sell For State Education Plan | 2/15/1989 | See Source »

Back then I had this unbelievable crush on the girl who sat in front of me in math class, Wendy Hollocher. Wendy had short light brown hair and a button nose with dimples to match. Her figure wasn't especially noticeable, but then again, not many fourth-graders' were...

Author: By Jonathan S. Cohn, | Title: Of Valentine's Day and Cooties | 2/14/1989 | See Source »

...have to continue to support them through humanitarian assistance. It also seems to me that we should not just march in and disband the contras. We need to at least leave open the prospect they could be re-established as a fighting force if Ortega continues to thumb his nose at his neighbors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I Want to Be the President's Man | 2/13/1989 | See Source »

...Read my nose," declared NBC News commentator John Chancellor last November, decrying the foul atmosphere of the fall campaign. READ MY LICKS, headlined the Los Angeles Times in a story about the menu for an Inaugural reception this month. Christian Science Monitor reviewer John Beaufort could not resist pointing out the "thousand points of incandescent light" in the lavish Broadway musical Legs Diamond. Last week USA Today ran a story about the pre-Inaugural cleanup of Washington. The headline: A THOUSAND POINTS OF GLEAM...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Read My Cliche | 1/16/1989 | See Source »

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