Word: nosed
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Sure enough, Shoop tried to steal the ball right out from under the Bulldogs’ nose on the opening kickoff last weekend...
...Business School, which has always trended younger,” said Sanford Kreisberg, an independent admissions consultant who runs a much-followed thread on Business Week’s website about elite business school admissions called “ASKANDY.” “Ivy grads with nose-bleed GPAs and unclear career goals used to be hired for two years by investment banks and consulting shops during the boom. Now those kids, by default, go to law school, the haven of the unemployed and undecided. HBS may want some of that...
...those “nose-bleed GPAs” appear to be alive and well across the river, some the results of the Early Career Initiative...
Eyes closed and sitting cross-legged on forest green cushions in Andover Chapel, I suddenly feel—very itchy. My mind guiltily contemplates the possibility of scratching my nose, an act which would technically break the meditative state I’m supposedly in and would also interrupt the silence. I would feel better if Andover Chapel at 8:30 a.m. were not this arched-ceiling, hushed-voice space in the Divinity School with green stained-glass windows. It’s all very lovely, but the calm which seems to exude from the wooden crosses and my fellow...
...simply leaving Iraq is based on the notion that to do so would just encourage more terrorism. Hasty retreats from Lebanon in 1985 and Somalia in 1993 are Exhibit A and B in Osama bin Laden's argument that despite its overwhelming military power, the U.S. runs when its nose is bloodied. The converse, however, may also be true: That the continued presence of U.S. occupation forces in Iraq fuels an anti-American insurgency there and swells the ranks of Islamist terror networks worldwide. Or, as Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld put in his internal Defense Department memorandum leaked two weeks...