Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rather bumblingly humorous when wound up. He stands 6 ft. 1 in. with his limp brown hair stuck down flat, and bulks a solid 15 stone (210 lbs.). He resembles General de Gaulle, except that he does not share the look of a supercilious camel. His great tired nose droops even lower than De Gaulle's. It curls under just in time to disclose an uncertain mustachelet which changes position with each shave...
Eight men from Eliot House rowed the Henley distance--d mile and 5-16--in seven minutes and 29 seconds in chilly Charles Basin at dusk yesterday to nose out the Winthrop crew by a deck length and cop the House crew championship...
...last dual match of the season, the Varsity golf team lost by a nose to the Blue yesterday at Winchester, 5 to 4, to give the Crimson a season's record of seven wins and two defeats...
During 50 years of farming at Hiawatha, Kans., John M. Davis accumulated a half million dollars and a long white beard. He also developed a turned-down nose, a turned-down mouth and a suspicious and belligerent eye. John M. Davis had a problem and he wrestled with it morning, noon & night. The effort gave him a mean look...
...even a peevish one who constantly takes umbrage - gets too much blood in his stomach walls; if he stays angry too long, ulcers may result. The fury or sulking fits aroused by threats to a man's life or his love, said Dr. Wolff, sometimes affects his nose: it may swell up and hurt. A "mad" nose, caught with its resistance down, is easy prey to colds and other infections...