Word: nosedives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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To a hawk-nosed French colonel in his sandbagged command post came an unexpected message from Washington. "In common with millions of my countrymen," wrote President Eisenhower last week, "I salute the gallantry and stamina of the commander and soldiers who are defending Dienbienphu." Eisenhower also had a notion about...
Winning three events, the Wigglesworth swimming team nosed out Matthews North for first place by three points. The winners amassed a total of 40 points, with Bill Ayer and Dick Sayre taking individual championships. Other swimming meet victors were Steve Wald of Lionel, Brian Wilhelm of Matthews North, and Mike...
Another reason for the article, Feeney speculated, was that Roy Larsen, "Time's number-two man, was one of the half-dozen finalists in the race for Harvard President; and he chose this way to assure Pusey he didn't hold any grudge for being nosed out."
The son of a Missouri Baptist preacher, sturdy, bulb-nosed Ernest Wilkins became a brilliant mathematician and a Phi Beta Kappa at the University of Illinois, wrote a thesis on algebraic numbers theory before he graduated in 1918. After serving overseas in World War I, he worked his way through...
The bandy-legged, broken-nosed little boxer on the scales was Pasquale Giuseppe DeMarco, weighing in for his crack at Jimmy Carter's lightweight championship of the world. Standing beside him, New York Boxing Commissioner Robert Christenberry nudged the weights into position, squinted at the figures and absentmindedly identified...