Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thick mist made visibility poor. As he marched up the lower half of the Champs Elysees, preceded by groups representing former prisoners of war and deportees, Communist youth organizations and the Franc-tireurs et Partisans (Communist-controlled guerrillas who had fought the Nazis), Boisvin could only just see the nose and steel helmet of Georges Clemenceau, peeping through the fog. Crowds lined the street...
...Paco Gorraez heard the news in a cafe. "By God," he said, "but the old owl can really fly!" Then he strode across the café, confronted TIME Reporter Rafael Delgado Lozano, who had persuaded him not to bet on Harry Truman. Expertly, he punched Expert Lozano in the nose...
...week's end, many newspapers decided, like Uncle Toby, that they should wipe it up and say no more about it. Nevertheless, the fact that the press had so misinterpreted events right under its nose raised the grave question of whether it was doing an equally bad job in interpreting news in other fields than politics...
...secret of Mexican riding is controlling the horse's movements almost entirely through the rider's legs-not his hands. Says Mariles: "The motor of the horse is in back, not in front. A horse is not an automobile; you don't drive him by his nose...
FRED KOZAK, ace punter, is reputed to have one of the most refined toes in Ivy circles. Sidelined earlier in the year with a broken nose, Kozak has returned in a series of phenomenal kicks...