Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...discovery was the first real proof of what coelophysis was like. Scientists had long suspected that something very much like him lived in the Triassic Period, but they had only a few bone fragments to go on. Now, the diggers believe that they can reassemble coelophysis from his pointed nose to the tip of his long tail. If so, they can fill in a tremendous gap in the study of dinosaur evolution...
...thing: they must all take a turn in postgraduate training in general practice. He wanted no "cockeyed specialists" in his family. The boys obeyed-but came out specialists anyway. Herbert (the eldest) and Paul became surgeons, William a pediatrician, Philip an obstetrician-gynecologist, Carl (the youngest) an eye, ear, nose and throat...
...annual loss of $400 million in unpaid taxes. He thought the "vast majority" of U.S. taxpayers were honest, but he also implied that a chiseling minority could now succeed in evading the law. But, like the rent bill, he indicated, it was a choice between evils. Holding his nose and glaring at Congress, he had signed...
Columnist Billy Rose had been hearing from his indignant readers. Some of them, he confided, didn't like having such serious subjects as Palestine "discussed by a Broadway clown with breakaway suspenders and a nose that lights up. They suggested I let the Deep Thinkers do the deep thinking and confine my writings to razzle-dazzle and razzmatazz...
...digest their food. Most viruses are rabid specialists and choosy about what they invade. Some thrive only in plants, some only in certain animals, some only in man, some only in certain tissues; e.g., the influenza virus in man can exist only in the lining of the breathing apparatus (nose, throat, lungs...