Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...truth about her was not so exciting. When she appeared before two congressional committees last week, she proved to be neither beautiful nor glamorous. She was plump and had a sharp nose and receding chin. She was not blonde; her hair was dark brown. But she was-or had been-a spy. There was no doubt about that. And the torrent of her confession was far more shocking than the fact that she was no Mata Hari...
...Progressive Party is thus a hybrid party-its ranks manned by the generous, the idealistic, the disaffected, the independent; its real bosses, who quietly, adroitly lead it by the nose, a small group of Communists and Communist-liners. And as the hybrid figurehead of this aggregation, adored by the majority, steered by the minority, walks helpless Henry Wallace...
...which used to be called the "flying stovepipe" before its proper design was found to be enormously difficult. The ramjet does look simple. It is a hollow cylinder open at both ends and subtly shaped inside. When it is moving rapidly, the air coming in the nose is compressed as if by the compressor of the turbojet. Fuel is burned near the point of highest compression. The energy added to the compressed air by combustion shoves a jet of hot, high-speed gas out the rear end with a noise like thunder. There is nothing inside a typical ramjet except...
They were nothing but punks-callow, sullen, foul-mouthed youths. Tuberculous, bespectacled Johnny West was 22; he had a thin, bony body, a big nose, a girl's mouth, and a mind as weak and erratic as a bat's. Stocky, thick-lipped Robert Daniels was 24; there was a look of dull, animal vigor about him and he loved flashy clothes. But he had a psychopathic impulsiveness, an inability to consider consequences...
...same week Joseph Stance, health inspector of Glen Cove, L.I., was sure that what he smelled was no hallucination. More like an overworked cesspool, thought Stanco. He followed his nose to the old Maxwell estate at Glen Cove, now leased as a weekend recreation spot for Russian U.N. staffers. Stanco said that he could see a pump working on the cesspool but he could not pursue his investigation further because the Russians would not let him inside the house. "You have your laws," said a courteous comrade, "and we have ours. Your American laws do not concern...