Word: nosing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Chapman Foster of
New York, to succeed Democrat Alfred Schindler, resigned, as Under Secretary
of Commerce.
...going to inventory home troops, said Russia's Vyacheslav Molotov, why not inventory their weapons as well-including atomic and jet-propelled weapons? Breathing heavily through his nose, Britain's P. J. Noel-Baker retorted: "He asks if we are ready to turn over information on our atomic and jet-propelled weapons. Are we ready? Of course we are not, no more than Mr. Molotov is ready. We will give that information as part of a combined agreement of collective security and general disarmament. We will do it then, when we know the whole thing is a reality...
...Maugham's little sermon, pulled it through 89 dressy sets, photographed it tenderly from every possible angle and spiced it up with a thrilling musical background, it stands revealed as a rather small, shivering, indecently exposed banality. Hollywood's cameras, always rudely frank about a misshapen nose or an inept gesture, have everlastingly proved that they can be equally ruthless and revealing with a fuzzy idea...
...Oriental Deer is delicate and fleet enough to outrun one of Buffon's best rhapsodies. His Grasshoppers-which, like Buffon, he conceives as armored leaping machines-are pictured with the immediacy of a farmer awakening from a nap in the field to find them right under his nose. The vital, trembling Horse looks exactly like what Buffon must have meant when he said horses were "the noblest conquest man has ever made...
...Author. Dylan (rhymes with villain, and is Welsh for "tide") Thomas was born in Swansea, South Wales. He covers his brownish, Byronic curls with a trilby and sports baggy tweeds, green shirts, Paisley ties. Short, cherubic, with fleshy lips and snub nose, he resembles more the robust, hard-drinking Elizabethan type of poet than the common hungry wolverine species. Thomas lives with his wife and two children in Oxford, goes up to London a few times a week, where he works as BBC scriptwriter and poetry reader (he is scheduled to read the title-role in his friend Poet Louis...