Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nightmare. In Orofino, Idaho, Mr. & Mrs. Marshall Converse woke up in a shower of glass, discovered that a passing horse had poked his nose through their bedroom window to nibble a vase of appetizing flowers...
...dangerously cocky-with the N.C.A.A. championship hinging on the game. And before anybody had a chance to work up a sweat, Kentucky had scored 13 points to Baylor's one. There just wasn't anything that Baylor could do about 6 ft. 7 in. Alex ("The Nose") Groza, Kentucky's star center, whose head seems to threaten the mezzanine. He sucked in rebounds like a vacuum cleaner. He was swift afoot and deadeyed. Final score: Kentucky 58, Baylor...
Last week, after Music Czar Petrillo lifted his ban on television (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), the networks scrambled to be first to televise their big symphonies. CBS won by a nose, with a telecast of the Philadelphia Orchestra. It was an interesting performance: Maestro Eugene Ormandy, unwarily popping a peppermint into his mouth in midpassage; the camera ogling the girl members of the orchestra. But for most televiewers it was just a curtain raiser for Toscanini, half an hour later...
...contemporary newsman reported that Daumier looked like one of his own cruelest caricatures, "but if one . . . tries to penetrate this bourgeois shell, the features soon brighten into life. That little eye with its heavy lid, half-closed in perpetual winking, thrusts at you its clear sharp look . . . even his nose seems to enjoy the observations he has just made...
...mills are nearly played out, and if cheap Labrador ores can't be shipped down the St. Lawrence, an unthinkable dislocation of the steel industry will occur. Senator Wiley of Wisconsin warned in recent debates that, by refusing to build the Seaway, "we shall in effect be tying a nose around our own necks." Wiley accused New England of a conspiracy to block the project and force steel companies to move East where cheap ores can easily be shipped...