Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Anti-Clerical. In Philadelphia, the Rev. Isaac Bobst fought to win a divorce, complained that his wife coughed during church services, made faces, thumbed her nose at him when he was in the pulpit...
...little (5 ft. 7 in.) Hoagy's big job. Reason: for the first time a wide public has realized that Carmichael is not only a great songwriter, but also an extraordinarily tasteful, idiomatic jazz singer. His style is a restrained off-blue (he calls it "flatsy through the nose...
Timothy Dwight staged a sustained third-period drive to nose out Leverett 7 to 0 in a slow game which found the Bunnies slightly outclassed by their Eli opponents. Rob Bast broke loose from the 30 to romp over the the TD touchdown...
...satisfied yet, are working out the super test of tomorrow: something that will measure new aspects of the student's personality. By making him perform the same simple operation over & over, for example, they hope to figure out his "persistence quotient" (one reason why steady, mediocre tortoises sometimes nose out brilliant but unstable hares...
...many an airman wondered if entering the light-plane field now might not be regarded as "Fulton's Folly." The industry had been pointing its nose towards the ambitious goal of 400,000 planes by 1955. But last week (after producing 26,974 planes since V-J day) the entire industry was losing altitude fast...