Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...responsible statesman in any country can, or does, contemplate the prospect of war." For the immediate future Lie was probably right; but Lake Success was haunted by the fear that a fateful day would come when Andrei Gromyko, the Neanderthal diplomat, would hunch his shoulders and follow his bulbous nose out of a door for the last time...
...Peps, however, had not exactly plodded. With a converted Allison engine (from a Lockheed P-38) under her hatch and a converted Army pilot in her cockpit, she had averaged 54.88 m.p.h. Curly-headed Driver Danny Foster finished after being temporarily deafened by his engine, but not bleeding at nose & mouth, as drivers sometimes do after a bumpy, rough-water race...
...Stauffenberg (the man who nearly killed Hitler on July 20, 1944) as a Johnny-come-lately with half-Nazi ideas of his own. It was Stauffenberg who lugged a bomb-laden briefcase into field headquarters at Rastenburg, East Prussia, and left it to explode under Hitler's nose. The blast gave Hitler a good shaking up, and as a result of it more than 50 general staff officers died. Author Gisevius, one of the few plotters who survived, went into hiding, escaped to Switzerland when the OSS smuggled him a forged passport. Readers may balk at the rightist, sometimes...
...Antlike figures made fast the tossed lines. The town band, percussive and perspiring, panted with bravura through the Merry Widow Waltz, Pomp & Circumstance, and struck up the great invocation: Rule, Britannia! Through the mist in some watchers' eyes the colossal Cunarder wavered moltenly. Even Colonel Blimp blew his nose with a Tory blast prolonged by the boom of the great ship's sirens, which are pitched two octaves below middle A and audible ten miles across the downs. On decks and dock, the handkerchiefs fluttered, bon voyage bouquets were waved. The farewells grew fainter across the widening water...
...United Nations of another Russian satellite. Russia's Alexei N. Krasilnikov, Gromyko's standin, thought it would be nice if Albania (which stands accused before U.N. of helping guerrillas to attack Greece) became a member. The U.S. and Britain thought that Albania should first blow its political nose...