Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...That Arévalo. He hates me. I don't know why. Lord, he has troubles of his own in Guatemala-why bother to stick his nose into Nicaragua?" Nicaraguan Dictator Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza, who is proud of his English, paused abruptly and jabbed a fat finger into the stuffed Guatemalan quetzal that hung by his desk. "The quetzal-symbol of liberty or death to the Guatemalans," he snickered. "There are lots of tame ones in the Bronx...
...picture of the little eight-year-old Italian boy learning to read Braille with his nose and lips [TIME, June 7] should help to rouse fortunate Americans to their duty to send aid to the children of Europe...
Harry Truman was weary, his sunburned nose was peeling and his lips were cracked. But when he got back to Washington last week he was full of bounce; he was delighted with his 15-day, 9,505-mile, 73-speech campaign trip. His whirl through 18 states had been his rehearsal for the big campaign, and he was convinced that the people liked it. He planned to give them a lot more of the same before November...
...Chinatown. Children, they agreed, are easiest to handle, not only because the little innocents are used to being led around by the nose anyway, but also because they are not automatically prejudiced, like many of their elders, against unfamiliar sights. The adults are apt to be casual but hostile. They often seem to "feel the museum's educational duty is comparable to a swift tour of Chinatown...
...Sympathy was the right prescription for Big Bill. He began pitching brilliantly. He won the last six games he pitched for the Braves last year, and the first four this year. When Giant fans boo him now, he feels like thumbing his nose, but pretends dignified indifference...