Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Scott had come to the little crossroads farming town, a year ago as a lay preacher for the new Methodist Church. He had a nose for sin. His eyes gleamed behind his rimless glasses, and his tongue was like a two-edged sword. He cried aloud for the citizens of Rose City to repent. They went to movies and dances, he stormed. While the kids played baseball on Sunday, he prayed in church for rain to stop them...
...five horses got away at the start, Assault stumbled and almost dug his nose in the dirt. Smart Jockey Eddie Arcaro quickly pulled him together, but Assault was already twelve lengths in the ruck. The only horse behind him was Stymie, a notorious laggard whose specialty is a hair-raising burst of speed at the end. Assault was carrying the top handicap weight in the race (133 lbs.), but on the backstretch, when Arcaro decided to move, Assault began running...
...times in the fifth and last (about an hour and a half after sunset). The week's most important prayer is at noon on Friday, when Moslems fill the mosques to overflowing. Inside the mosques are fountains, at which the Moslem washes in a prescribed sequence: hands, mouth, nose, face, right arm, left arm, head, ears, right foot, left foot...
Outside Boston, fans and sport columnists, who naturally go for the personalities, have scarcely noticed steady, workmanlike Southpaw Spahn. In Boston, they have not even thought up a nickname that stuck (his Braves mates call him "The Nose"). Except for his high-heeled delivery (see cut) and his knack of nipping runners off first base,* there was not much out of the way about shy, Buffalo-born Warren Spahn. In every baseball manager's book, young left-hander pitchers are automatically listed as eccentric. Not so Spahn. He has what few southpaws have ever shown in their first full...
Power supply is no problem. Colonel McCutcheon describes the various reaction engines which will power guided missiles, at least until atomic propulsion is perfected. Best known is the familiar turbojet. A compressor draws air through the engine's nose. Burning fuel heats and expands it. The hot blast roars out the tail at over 1,000 miles an hour, giving a mighty push. Before the gases reach the open, they spin a turbine, which powers the compressor...