Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reuther: When a bunch of workers asks for their share you thumb your nose at them, tell them to go to hell, refuse to conciliate, refuse to bargain, refuse to negotiate, refuse to arbitrate. That is the way you do it. You are asking for a fight and, brother, you are going to get it, and if it is the last thing we do, brother, we are going to sweat this one out to the bitter end. . . The whole American labor movement is behind us. We are backed to the last goddam inch...
...first the words sounded impudent, as when she thumbed her nose, in pungent book reviews, at literary lights like G. B. Shaw and H. G. Wells. The cleverness and impudence matured into eloquence and insight, and in criticism and novels (The Judge, The Return of the Soldier, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon), Rebecca West proved herself one of the most ardently articulate Englishwomen of her time...
...audience was not disappointed in the show. Pat Hurley came out with a roar, both fists swinging. His white mustache bristled, his black-ribboned pince-nez wobbled on his nose. He pounded away on his main theme: that Career Diplomats George Atcheson Jr. and John S. Service (formerly in China posts, now political advisers to General MacArthur in Tokyo) had worked against him and the avowed U.S. policy of upholding Chiang Kai-shek's Central Government. Most specific of his accusations...
...Chicago apartment, Mrs. Marian Caldwell dug carefully into a grapefruit, then dodged back-a .22 caliber bullet, fired from outside her window, had passed through her nose...
France is aware that its prestige has waned; last week in Paris a Franco-Allied Good Will Committee tried to find France's way back to the world's heart through the world's nose. TIME Correspondent Joe Weston was among 800 U.S. civilians and soldiers who attended a good will lecture on French perfumes. His report...