Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...idle to speculate on the possible motives for Russia's actions. It would be no more fruitful than trying to discover why the wind should blow east instead of west. Certainly Russia is cutting off her own nose, whether to spite her face or not. When she had at last been successful in wooing England into a trade agreement and since then has done everything possible to nullify its articles and to put England into a bad humor, she may expect to travel far before finding another commercial friend...
...seconds failed to make use of their opportunities, and time and again were caught off bases. Both teams suffered minor injuries during the game. In the second inning a hard-hit ball bounced poorly for Hanson, the Dean shortstop, and, striking him squarely in the face, broke his nose. He was able to play through the game, however. Fitton, at third for the Crimson, was also hit in the face and had to leave the field, while Hoffman received a slight injury on the kneecap from a foul...
...broad daylight of Sunday afternoon a ball of fire dropped from the skies and landed on a roof in Harlem's darktown quarter. To distant observers this phenomenon must have had as awful portent as Bardolph's flaming nose, perhaps dire prediction of the approaching eruption of such active volcanoes as Mount Borah, Mount La Follotte and Mount Hiram Johnson. But distance lends enchantment and observers who were not distant noon pricked this loinantie bubble of would-be anthology. The meteor proved to be nothing but a negro, dressed like Mephistopheles in crimson tights and tunic and hitched...
...made it more than ever apparent that whole masses of people were being led about by the nose. Men fought without knowing why they were fighting; storms of passion arose out of misapprehension. Therefore the resolve was taken in the heat of the battle, that the masses should be leavened by education, and the men should be taught to live peacably side by side through seeing one another clearly. In the United States the first material development of this idea was the formation of the Committee of One Hundred under the leadership of Mr. Elihu Root. Its purpose, announced early...
...left McCook on a flight to Langley. In the face of a head wind, Captain Lawson-a distinguished war pilot- could not clear a bridge across the Miami at the edge of the field, and a sharp turn, though well advised under the circumstances, resulted in an almost vertical nose-dive into the river with the instantaneous death of these four men and serious injury to a fifth...