Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next day, Ohio's cautious, conservative Robert Alphonso Taft added that maybe the idea might work-if every country allowed United Nations policemen to nose around for signs of atomic activity. But many doubted that Soviet Russia, for one, would ever consent to international snooping...
...medical school for L.S.U. New Orleans' proud, private Tulane University, which boasts one of the finest medical schools in the South, had refused Huey an honorary degree. Huey swore he would make Tulane look like "a little red school-house." In one year, right under Tulane's nose in New Orleans, Huey built a $1.5 million medical school. When everything else that Huey built came tumbling down, the L.S.U. Medical School stayed up. Under the conscientious administration of Dean Beryl Iles Burns it has kept its American Medical Association rating...
Beyond television broadcasting, the new tube has fascinating possibilities. Some are military. Perched in the nose of a pilotless bomber, the tube could watch the terrain below, projecting what it sees on a screen in a guiding airplane many miles behind. By watching the screen, an operator who remains in faraway safety could steer the bomber cross-country by remote control...
...topic in Gloucester. Other fishermen, following the Angle and Florence, tried it with success. But Skipper Philip Nicastro of the Serafina N. claimed that one impetuous shark ate a whole bag of the stuff without apparent damage. One possible explanation: shark-scat (like some strong cheeses) offends the nose and eyes, but not the stomach...
...youthful Scriptwriter Isherwood-a parlor pink who lives with his adoring mother and brother-Director Bergmann is awe-inspiring. "His head . . . was . . . the head of a Roman emperor, with dark old Asiatic eyes ... big firm chin . . . harsh furrows cutting down from the imperious nose . . . bushy black hair in the nostrils. . . . But the eyes were the dark, mocking eyes of [an emperor's] slave-the slave who ironically obeyed, watched, humored and judged the master who could never understand him; the slave upon whom the master depended utterly, for his amusement, for his instruction, for the sanction of his power...