Word: nose
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...affecting memoir demonstrates, chemistry in the right hands can be a powerful muse. For Levi, every compound has a distinctive personality. Hydrochloric acid "is one of those frank enemies that come at you shouting from a distance . . . After having taken in one breath of it you expel from your nose two short plumes of white smoke, like the horses in Eisenstein's movies." Chemistry's periodic table, which arranges the elements according to their atomic number, is Levi's metaphor for the relationships that compose a human life. The Periodic Table consists of 21 episodes, most of them autobiographical, named...
...Americans have been exposed to at least one of the five types of herpes viruses; most experience no symptoms at all. True, some 10% to 30% of those exposed to herpes simplex Type 1 will develop cold sores, but these facial eruptions, mostly around the mouth and nose, hardly qualify as a disfiguring disease. The three victims of the boycotts have more serious symptoms because they were exposed prenatally or around the time of birth...
Even so, it is useful to have this work as a long-overdue antidote to Lytton Strachey's sneering, unfair attack in Queen Victoria (1921). Prince Francis Charles Augustus Albert Emmanuel of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha was, for one thing, strikingly handsome--possessed of a "beautiful nose" and "fine teeth," as Victoria noted in 1836 when the two cousins, both 16, first met. He was a dutiful, romping father. He taught the art of the somersault. He played with kites. He enjoyed having nine children in 17 years almost as much as Victoria...
...these past years by our First Ladies, each with her own style and goals. John Kennedy acknowledged that his wife could be difficult. Jackie Kennedy sometimes spent too much money, and her moods were mercurial. She loved the power, but hated the fishbowl life, once even thumbing her nose at tourists. But she had an idea: to make the White House a living museum. She planted that idea, and it flourishes today. She furnished the class we came to call Camelot. The Kennedy men too often were boors...
...away from the first, cracked a vertebra in the second. What is more, the Federal Aviation Administration cited him 13 times for the second crash. Among his wrongdoings, said the FAA, was flying too low. That was a hard charge to dodge, since it is difficult to keep your nose up when you are unconscious and going down. In the end he enriched...