Word: nose
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...About 6 million to do the counting, and a billion or so more to stand around and watch. To be precise, it takes 1,008,175,288. That figure, released last week, is the official result of China's first nationwide nose counting since 1964. The preliminary totals show that over the past 18 years the mainland has added more than 313 million people. Of the total, 51.5% are men, and about 80% (or more than 800 million) still live in the largely impoverished countryside. A staggering 236 million (23%) are reported to be either illiterate or semiliterate...
...after breaking Jean Stafford's nose in an automobile accident, Lowell, 23, married her. Then during a squabble, he broke her nose again, with his fist. For a while the strange marriage worked. She wrote her bestseller Boston Adventure. He converted from Episcopalianism to Roman Catholicism and labored at his poetry as if salvation depended on it. At 29 he published his first book of poems, entitled Lord Weary's Castle, a quirky, indelible mix of Boston locales and Old Testament theology. A Pulitzer Prize followed...
...getting richer and flocking to their very own indigenous Mercedes. But from the viewpoint of business horse sense, of which De Lorean is said to have had plenty, it only looks as if the man was deliberately trying to fail. When the company is about to fold, the hard-nose founder with two master's degrees decides to deal dope in order to rescue it. Wild...
Frankly, when Anders was just about to begin. I was sure he would do it straight," says Chris Librie, now a senior at the University of Pennsylvania. "Then, he bent down behind the podium, put on the Groucho Mars fake nose, glasses and moustache and right away got a standing ovation...
...brown nose Peter Vellucci Democratic candidate for State Representative 29th Middlesex District, His further, Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci, took this class years ago. Did knows all the professors and the section leaders, he has the answers to the problem sets in his scrapbook. Peter is stressing his familiarity with the East Cambridge neighborhood over his knowledge of the subject matter. There's no reason to expect it won't work...