Word: nose
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Before the report was issued, nose counters projected an 11-to-4 Senate Intelligence Committee majority for recommending Gates' confirmation. Now the count is thought to be 8 to 7 -- and nobody is sure which side would wind up with the eight. The committee will question Gates again in closed session this week, but is likely to put off a vote, possibly until all congressional investigations of the Iran-contra affair are concluded. That would be a "solution" satisfactory to nobody; Gates would be running the CIA as acting director, probably for many months, but with a cloud hanging over...
...cheater. It seems Meissner's errant drives had a way of reappearing in-bounds. On those murky grounds, his first application to the P.G.A. was rejected. Here is the pertinent point: when he later faced the bar of justice, Meissner readily admitted poking his pistol in the nose of all those tellers, but he bitterly denied ever cheating at golf...
...curtain parted to reveal a gleaming white jetliner. It was the A- 320, a 150-seat aircraft that is the new offering from Airbus, the European consortium. For a final touch of pizazz, Prince Charles and Princess Diana, on hand for the debut, sloshed champagne over the plane's nose...
...announced any intention to become master of ceremonies of the comedy club of life that stand-up comics would start dishing out lines like, "Hey--you hear about Dukakis' economical version of a Star Wars defense shield? Yeah, in case of nuclear attack, we all just hide under his nose...
...estimated 10,000 comatose Americans who cannot swallow are now kept alive by feeding tubes, usually inserted into the stomach directly or through the nose. The claim that such patients -- or proxies acting on their behalf -- have the right to halt nutrition was endorsed a year ago by both the American Medical Association and the American Bar Association. Seriously debilitated but conscious patients who are unable to swallow are claiming the same right. Last month a Colorado court granted a no-feeding request from a patient who was conscious but paralyzed from the neck down. He died two weeks...