Word: nosedness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Now, in blood-chilling tones, he was telling his rapt listeners what will happen to them after a Communist takeover: "They'll take a wide-bore revolver with a soft-nosed bullet and place it at the nape of your neck to blow your brain and your face into...
The next major figure in Notre Dame's history was a smash-nosed kid from Chicago, a Norwegian-American Protestant named Knute Rockne. In 1913 obscure little Notre Dame played Army in Yankee Stadium as a filler on West Point's football schedule. Captain Rockne, at left end...
It was the way in which President Kennedy brought up the subject of stockpiling that sent a shudder last week through metal centers from the aluminum mills of California to the copper mines of the Congo. In harsher language than he usually uses at his press conferences, the President implied...
Where did these Cretans come from? Perhaps from Asia. What wiped them out? Perhaps a civil war. And what became of the refugees? Perhaps some of them were the Philistines-those enemies of the Jews whom Christianity condemned as the exponents of hard-nosed materialism.
Talent Hunt. As the Aussie players come and go, their team's most valuable man remains its laconic captain, Harry Hopman. A hard-nosed disciplinarian who demands monastic devotion and impeccable manners from his players. Hopman. 55, bosses an uncompromising talent-hunting organization that spots promising youngsters, grooms them...