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Word: nose (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Draper, who successfully brought liquor to Colbert and then, feeling muscular, ran for county commission chairman. Soundly defeated, he said, "I committed political suicide in heading up that drive." Another is the Chamber of Commerce in still dry Florence, a town that has forever looked down a patrician nose at Colbert County. The view has always been that field hands and factory workers live over there in Colbert, while management lives back across the river here in Lauderdale. Now, however, the dry Chamber is talking with the wet Chamber over yonder about a merger. The view behind this turn seems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Alabama: Voting Dry and Practicing Wet | 3/7/1983 | See Source »

...lunch table--his nose was dripping because he had a cold--just sat there slurping his vegetable beef soup without participating in the conversation. Finally he broke his silence and said. "You guys, I stood in that line for four hours and I didn't get tickets. I really don't see how one person can take as many tickets as he wants to, buying out the entire University. It's just not fair...

Author: By Andy Doctoroff, | Title: 113 Tickets For My Friends | 3/2/1983 | See Source »

...gave him dirty looks, so he just continued to gulp down his soup and wipe his nose. None of us really knew...

Author: By Andy Doctoroff, | Title: 113 Tickets For My Friends | 3/2/1983 | See Source »

...result, Harvard lost its chance to nose out Providence, which lost to Colgate Saturday, 6-2. Instead the Crimson must settle for the second seed in the ECAC playoff, which start Friday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ECAC Play off Picture | 2/28/1983 | See Source »

...play her role as royal photo model. After a week of confusion and rancor, the London tabs had little to show for their efforts except a few murmurs from Prince Charles ("Please darling, please darling"), some shots made immediately after he said, "Now I'm going to blow my nose for everyone to photograph," and huffily written stories of scary auto chases and photographers being roughed up by bodyguards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Royalty vs. the Pursuing Press: In Stalking Diana, Fleet Street Strains the Rules | 2/28/1983 | See Source »

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