Word: nose
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Johnson managed to get the entire cotton textile industry organized in June. But Henry Ford, who accounted for 21% of all auto sales, refused to have anything to do with such Government interference, and Johnson had no power to coerce anyone except by threatening "a punch in the nose." What Johnson did have was an instinctive genius for what came to be known by a newly popular word: ballyhoo...
...like the bean in the nose story," Wacker said. "A mother gave her son money to buy a pound of beans and told him not to put them up his nose, thus giving him the idea of doing it." "Sicking out is learned behavior," he added...
...wish one line of visual poetry had been included in Images, like the unforgettable touchdown of the maiden flight of the space shuttle Columbia. The beautiful curve of the ship's lifted nose was purely lyrical. Grace Carstens East Sandwich, Mass...
...some oenophiles, champagne seems a frivolous drink, a pleasant apéritif but unsuitable for consumption throughout a meal. Says Humorist Art Buchwald: "It tastes as though my foot's asleep." Yet, inevitably, the noble, pale gold fluid, its nose-wrinkling bubbles and the sense of care and occasion that accompanies it will always make the wine more of a celebration than a tipple. As they say in the Napa Valley these days, Santé! Bonne...
Marjabelle, who runs her empire from her lawyer-husband's home town of Kewanee, Ill. ("Hog Capital of the World"), also works with some 60 corporations to impart the social graces to bumptious executives. For too many, nose-to-the-grindstone careers have left little time for the velvet touch. In addition, Stewart has written eleven books, three of them with Ann Buchwald, wife of Columnist Art, which sport such jaunty titles as Looking Pretty, Feeling Fine and Stand Up, Shake Hands...