Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...John--John--tell me." Appleby's voice was thick, his nose ran, his young face looked years older. Divisionals and g-n are hard on a growing...
...glider, as everyone knows, is a small, motorless, extremely light-weight airplane. It usually takes the air by coasting down a hillside to gain sufficient momentum. A more modern method is to hold the glider steady, attach to its nose a shock cord made of rubber bands. Tension is applied to the shock cord and, on a given signal, the glider is flipped suddenly into the air like a pebble from a slingshot. An automatic release hook then drops the shock cord. Once in the air, the pilot of a glider must depend on air currents. Usually he circles around...
...Start. Dropping its landing gear to lessen its load, the White Bird skirted the southern coasts of England and Ireland, pointed its nose toward Newfoundland. It had no wireless. It was flying north of the usual steamship lanes. An angry wind from the west was beating in its face, slowing its speed. Expecting to reach New York in 35 hours, it carried only enough gasoline for 40 hours flying...
Heywood Campbell Broun wrote in his column for the New York World: "For ages I had been curious to know what would happen if the nose of a great editor were shattered. I find that it bleeds. ... I do not like to come scot-free when friends of mine in the same car are injured. Besides, a great many duties devolve upon the member of the party who is not lacerated. I hailed the passing limousines with hoarse cries of 'Hospital!' and I must say there is no great congestion of Samaritans in Central Avenue...
...first street talkers of the1 Salvation Army type, was Robert Flockhart (1778-1857). For 43 years he was a strange figure in Edinburgh streets. A contemporary described him: an abnormally short man, with ponderous arms and legs, a shuffling gait, beaklike nose and chin, "curious cast of the eye," and a perpetual haranguer. He was wont to dress in pantaloons, long, colored coat; wore a stock...