Word: nose
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tanks and self-propelled howitzers, which can easily roll up the ramp on the rear of the C-5B and roll off on the ramp at the front. To load a 747, however, equipment must be hoisted 16 ft. off the tarmac and pushed through nose or side doors...
...Smith feel a similar ache when the newspaper slaps down on the doorstep. They remember him as a friend. Taking a sauna in Helsinki, pub crawling in Melbourne, trout fishing in Montana (where he comes across a baby eagle "as big as Bobby Ussery, with a Durante nose"), he is gentle, funny and wise...
Captain McCullers could not make it. His plane struck a power line, veered farther to the left. Spewing balls of fire into the air, it tore through four blocks of Kenner and exploded into bits of charred metal. Thirteen houses were leveled. The plane's nose smashed into one house, skidded through a vacant lot, caromed through two more blocks. The tail with its Pan Am insignia plowed to a stop in someone's yard; it was the only section of the plane still intact...
...however, that their image problem got serious. After a series of reports that they were mistreating their help, Dade County police raided the royal couple's condominium, searching for an "enslaved" servant. A melee ensued. Police say the princess screamed at them, shouting, "I'll break your nose!" She did not, but one policewoman charges that Hend bit her arm. "It was very much a bitch-and-bite match," says a U.S. State Department emissary who tried to conciliate afterward. No slave was discovered. But the Saudi government precluded any future hassles by persuading the State Department...
...kind, caring kids, there are two kinds of adults in E.T.: MOM, the humorless, unobservant adult, abandoned by her husband, has enough problems holding a job while raising three kids. She is too busy and perhaps too mature to notice E.T., even when he is literally under her nose. And there are the cold, calculating adults, represented cloddishly by the nameless, faceless band of NASA men. They are not only aware that E.T. is in town, but also want to trap him and do God-knows-what to him for their own purposes...