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...Even the best scholars had something to learn, although in these matters academics are generally among the last to know. Early in the century, the Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics published an entry on customs of kissing around the world. The author, Anthropologist Alfred E. Crawley, expatiated on the nose rubbing of the Maoris and the Sandwich Islanders, on the billing of birds and the antennal play of insects. "The kiss seems to have been unknown in ancient Egypt," the learned writer noted. "In early Greece and Assyria, it was firmly established." Then, in a gemstone of Victorian scholarship, Crawley...
Otherwise, they brood. Into their study every morning parade the armies of the news. A knock on the door, and there stands Heseltine resigning from Mrs. Thatcher's Cabinet, Marcos on the stump, Gaddafi playing cowboy on his tractor, mummied to the nose. Come in, boys. The columnist will make sense of all this somehow. After the reporters and the editors have dumped the facts on the doorstep, the columnist, like a jigsaw addict, scoops up the pieces, studies the angles, mulls, clears his throat and says, with as much self-assurance as possible: This piece goes here, and this...
...that feed passengers to TWA's overseas routes. Icahn is also thinking about buying a hotel chain and an auto-rental company to combine with TWA. That would enable customers to reserve a plane seat, car and bed with one phone call. Says Icahn: "I've still got a nose for deals, and I intend to make some." --By Barbara Rudolph. Reported by Thomas McCarroll/New York
...frustration with a performance. Yet his colleagues speak with deep affection. Says Glenn Close, a co-star in The Big Chill: "He was a worrier, unbelievably insecure. We would always tease him about how much he would look in the mirror at himself. He said that he thought his nose looked like a potato and that he had no upper...
...knows what Jesus looked like. Painters and sculptors have tended to give him idealized features. He may have had a big nose or a receding chin. Even when enhanced by an artist, the photograph of the image on a rusty soybean-oil storage tank in Ohio could be taken to represent a hooded hangman, a Ku Klux Klan member or even a Russian woman in a babushka. When things as ridiculous as this make news, we become a silly society. William David Perkins Ann Arbor, Mich...