Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reference to the letter, "Admirals by the Nose?" by Yeoman Henry Jason, truer words were never spoken. Just one mistake -this also applies to Stateside WACs, WAVES and Red Cross girls...
...from Wall Street. Fortunately for the Navy, in all this squally weather and rising winds, it had a skillful pilot-the trim, well-groomed man with the flattened nose and the Wall Street background who for the past year and a half had been its civilian head...
...been invited by Franklin Roosevelt to become one of the six presidential assistants "with a passion for anonymity." Like F.D.R., he was born and raised in Dutchess County. And he was a Democrat. Right there the likeness ended. He had worked part of his way through Princeton, where his nose was broken in a boxing bout, worked for the Tobacco Products Corp. and sold bonds for Dillon, Read & Co. He had served in the Navy from 1917 to 1919 as a naval aviator, had returned to Wall Street and risen to become president of Dillon, Read. Franklin Roosevelt...
...Taif the chattering women piled out and into waiting automobiles. Riding past the nose of the plane, each & every one took a bold, veiled look at the Americans, who got a good look too. Then the C-47 went back to fetch the King. Ibn Saud, it was said, right royally enjoyed his first trip aloft...
...deep in every position, had the situation well in hand from the opening whistle, and figure to move through the rest of their schedule without defeat. Adams' small squad was further diminished when wingback Cywyche suffered a broken ankle and Frank Murphy was forced out with a broken nose...