Word: nosed
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...Ronald Reagan greeted visitors last week, reporters glimpsed a scab on the right side of his nose. White House Spokesman Larry Speakes later explained that a dermatologist had removed a small "gathering" of skin from the President's nose two days earlier. To avoid raising new concerns about cancer, Speakes refused to use the term lump or growth, talking instead of a skin irritation that had been aggravated after the President's operation...
...worked out before the document is signed, including which language will be used over the hot line. But, cautions one Washington aviation official, the proposed communications link will work only if it is used, and there is no guarantee that the Soviets will use it. AFGHANISTAN The Soviets' "Bloody Nose...
...helicopter gunships, that have been flowing into the base over the past two months. Said one leader of the guerrillas who are known as the mujahedin: "We were not going to let the Russians get in all these new troops and helicopters without giving them a bloody nose...
...first there were varying explanations for the small scab on the right side of the President's nose. It was described by White House Spokesman Larry Speakes as the result of "skin irritation, a gathering of skin, a piling up of skin," possibly aggravated by "an allergic reaction" to adhesive tape that had held a naso-gastric tube in place following Reagan's surgery last month for colon cancer. Actually, it was a bit more than that, as the President himself finally admitted. "I had, well, I guess for want of a better word, a pimple," he explained last week...
...outlay reached its peak in the third year of the Reagan Administration. Probably never in U.S. history had so much been spent on caterers, limousines and designer gowns in pursuit of influence. There also was a great self-beautification movement. "When you go out now you barely see a nose you know," says McLellan. "They are deeply concerned with their exteriors...