Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...moment) most important politicians. He was huddled in a black overcoat and brown woolen muffler, as if trying to withdraw into himself before the winds of winter and discontent that wailed about him. His black Homburg, tipped far over his pale blue eyes, almost scraped his nose, perhaps the most remarkable French nose since Cyrano de Bergerac's-a long, melancholy nose whose moody descent ended in a surprising and somewhat rakish twist, thus expressing both resignation and defiance to the world's all-embracing sadness...
...sweeping inference from it all was unavoidable: the U. S. non-Communist Left would support Truman this fall, holding its nose, and would not be likely to continue within a Democratic Party increasingly controlled by city bosses or respectable cronies--and jostled by ominous rumblings from the South. Whispers of a new party in January, or in 1952, built around the British Trade Union Congress model so strikingly duplicated in ADA, crackled through the convention before adjournment. There was substantial feeling that in the long run only one course could whip the devil and escape the rushing waters...
...reporter is not careful he may turn into a pundit, or a cocktail-swigging socialite, or become a power behind some politician's throne. Such lures have left Andrews cold. In Albany and way points (Sacramento, Chicago, the Paris Herald, and Manhattan), he learned to keep his nose for news clean, and his news sources at arm's length...
Unlucky Henry. Kaiser-Frazer had paid through the nose for that stock-buying job. Wall Street gossiped that many of those with inside information had taken advantage of the "stabilizing" to unload their holdings at the higher price. After K-F stopped buying, the stock started down. At $11, K-F had already lost over $460,000 on its stock. K-F had suffered another blow. It had tied up a good chunk of its ready cash in stock. With all the hue & cry over the stock, chances looked slim that K-F would soon be able to find...
After giving his nose another blow, Lee Pressman, 41, announced that he would open his own law office in Manhattan. He would also campaign for Henry Wallace...