Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...undertook to give them a lecture on clean living. A rugged man, the chaplain stepped into a ring one night to make his point. He called for challengers. The boys of Battery D shoved Tommy Murphy into the ring. The chaplain held his finger in front of his own nose. "You try to hit it, son," he said. "I'll just show you what clean living and coordination do for you." With studied innocence, Tommy made a wild swing which the well coordinated chaplain easily ducked. "See?" said the chaplain. "Try again." Tommy almost turned himself inside out, missing...
Almost any night last week a small, trim man with a boxer's nose could be seen letting himself out of an office in the Pentagon Building and striding briskly down the corridor with a brief case heavy with homework. James Forrestal had served his country conscientiously for eight years-as an anonymous assistant to Franklin Roosevelt, as Secretary of the Navy, and finally as Secretary of National Defense. His face showed no expression but a kind of habitual pugnacity. In no way did he betray the fact that he had been marked as the victim...
...morning last week a C82 lifted from a runway at Pope Air Force Base, N.C., carrying a load of paratroopers for a practice jump. A flock of starlings, startled from the trees, swept across its nose. They were drawn in by the thrashing propellers. The carburetor air intakes of both engines suddenly became choked with dead birds, the engines faltered. Pilot Robert Kilpatrick shouted to a crewman to push the jump bell...
Bustling about in her monkey-fur jacket and top-heavy hats, her pince-nez perched precariously on her thin nose, Impresario "Cissy" Schultz has long been as much a part of Seattle's musical scene as the musicians. For the past 25 years, she has run nearly everything musical in town except the symphony. Last summer when even that finally fell her way, one board member raged: "She always has wanted to get her clutches on the orchestra." Cissy rasped, in a voice sometimes compared to the sound of tearing canvas: "These big-business tycoons are just little boys...
...been assigned only to running study halls. The athletic coach quit because "My educational philosophy and that of the school superintendent were as far apart as the two poles . . ." Other stories dealt with paddling, long a traditional punishment for the unruly at Twinsburg. One student, struck on the nose, was placed under a doctor's care. A girl, caught chewing gum, had it stuck in her hair by a teacher and plastered down with Scotch tape.' The teacher was suspended by Powell for a week but was reinstated by the school board...