Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Into the tanbark of the Moscow Circus rolled a huge papier-maché head with bulbous nose, watery blue eyes and a patch of wispy hair made of brambles. This, explained Russia's famed Magician Kio, was the head of the U.S. To show his audience what went on inside the head, Kio unscrewed the top. In jumped a masked gunman in evening clothes (U.S. literature), a Western badman (Hollywood), two fat chorus girls (the U.S. theater) and three dwarfs (the Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan, a slanderer of the U.S.S.R...
...Marin has combined high principles and shrewd politics to fashion a career that astonishes the friends and enemies who, only a few years ago, regarded him as dilettante, dreamer, revolutionary and bohemian. Muñoz is a husky, stoop-shouldered man with eloquent dark eyes, a big nose, a cleft chin and furrowed brow. Except when he is amused or surprised, his face has a kind of built-in sad-angry expression...
...seven youths, ran from the corner of Boylston and Mt. Auburn streets to the triangle in front of Kirkland House. In the fracas, Thomas L. O'Donoghue '51 picked up a black eye and Harold W. Hollingshead '50 was cut above the eye and received a possible broken nose...
Shirley Anne took the head of the statue out of the ashcan. Only its nose had been dented. She pressed her lips affectionately against it. Then she ran shrilling into the house: "Mom, the statue cried. I kissed it and it cried." Viola Martin knew her daughter to be a perfectly normal girl, neither withdrawn nor possessed, but sufficiently imaginative to be pecking out on a typewriter a "book" she called "The Haunted House." Mrs. Martin decided to say nothing. "Nobody would have believed...
...Bulls has nothing, ostensibly, to do with the war, but the sand of the bull ring in this book is also the sand of the Peleliu beaches; the black and powerful truth that fills the book is the truth of death that marines learned on Peleliu's Bloody Nose Ridge...