Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have as much frontal area as a pilot sitting up. This was not very important with old-fashioned propeller planes. There was plenty of space for a seated pilot behind a reciprocating engine. But jet engines are slimmer and designers have learned to fold tanks and guns into nose and wings. To take full advantage of lower frontal areas, pilots may have to stretch out in the direction of the airstream...
Next step will be to test the bed in the nose of an F80 jet fighter. But its full advantage will not be known until a special extra-slim jet plane has been designed around...
Actually, of course, the ski events are as irrelevant to the Carnival as the huge snow imp poking his nose out of the huge snow boot in the middle of the campus, Like the comedians at the Old Howard, the skiers are just there to keep the crowd amused in its spare moments...
...Form. In London, a judge gave George Edward Croxford a month in jail for biting the nose of Arthur McCartney, added sternly that such behavior was "not British...
...that you can put your nose...