Word: nose
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Your article on F.D.R.'s legacy transported me back to a 1936 college class in political science. At one point in the professor's discourse on Roosevelt's programs I asked: "Who is going to pay?" His pince-nez popped off his nose, his face reddened, and his eyes sparked, as he exclaimed, "You, you and your children and your grandchildren...
...gave the region its nickname-"Silicon Valley." Growing up alongside the semiconductor companies in such towns as Sunnyvale, Los Altos and Cupertino are a host of new, high-tech industries. Says Michael Shields, a catalogue marketer in Palo Alto: "Living here is like riding in the nose cone of the space shuttle. We're riding into the future...
February 6, 2:13 a.m.--A student was assaulted while returning to Wigglesworth Hall. The two friends and a pizza. Two man approached the group and asked for a slice of pizza. Before the student could reply, one of the man punched him in the nose. The man then fled down Flympton...
When the World Airways DC-10 skidded off the runway at Logan International Airport and into Boston Harbor, the aircraft's nose section was sheared off like the tip of a roughly clipped cigar. Don Welsh, 25, a dental student at Tufts University, who was seated in the front cabin, suddenly found himself covered with spray and looking out at the harbor. Soon he and other passengers were pulling the flight crew out of the water. Welsh saw someone splashing ten or 20 yards to his left, well out of his reach. Then the person disappeared. Welsh told...
...Shields, 16, $1 million for the privilege, and she dutifully sat through several modeling sessions while the doll was fashioned. The first versions of the doll did not measure up to the standards of Mother Teri Shields, 48, who rejected one sample because the dimple was missing and the nose, well, it wasn't quite right. Examining a later attempt, Teri complained that the dollmakers had made Brooke a bit too busty. The final product did please the subject. "Wow!" said Brooke. "It really is me." No word yet on prospects for an adhesive companion Teri doll...