Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Secretary of State turned his head slowly from one interrogator to another, his slightly bulging, frosty eyes looking down an impressive, beaklike nose. His expression hardly changed, except to break occasionally into a fleeting wry smile. He handled the press conference delicately, parrying questions, articulating carefully in his cornetlike voice...
Captain Bob Claflin, who broke his nose in practice last week, returns to the lineup at 175, Dave Smith moves up to 136, and Tom Connors drops back to 165 in the only changes in the combination that stopped Dartmouth. Bob Abboud will fill Smith's regular 128-pound post...
...Haagen-Smit believes that the shape of a compound's molecule is important in determining what it smells like. The nose, he thinks, contains "receptors" which are designed to respond to molecules of certain shapes. When one of these comes along, the receptor recognizes it by its shape, and sends a nerve message which the brain interprets as an odor...
...Skinner faced the Indians' second toughest man and his first opponent who uses leg holds. Tom Connors took over for Captain Bob Claflin who broke his nose in practice...
...scampers around the coaching lines begging of them to connect with the ball. When his time arrives, he rushes to the bench, picks up a bat and without any ceremony, walks right up to the ball. He has a fancy way of meeting it-chopping it right on the nose and whenever he connects, you can depend upon seeing it take the long route...