Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...slammed in the only Harvard score of the afternoon. This only served to precipitate the action, and as the time ran out both teams pressed harder for a score and somewhere during the course of last quarter or in the scoring play, the Princeton goalie suffered a broken nose...
...sixth round Champion Zale had a bleeding lip, red welts over both eyes, a buzzing head, a chipped bone in his right thumb. Graziano's only apparent wound was a bloody nose. Groggy but still game, Zale suddenly launched a tigerish attack on Rocky's midsection. The challenger crumpled, gasping for air, and a following left hook floored him. When he finally got his wind back, he jumped up full of fight, but it was too late...
...Horatio does stay at sea long enough to dampen Flame's mutiny and to steal a fully laden French West Indiaman right out from under Boney's nose. That done, he goes ashore in France-where Novelist Forester finishes him off with a peerage, Bourbon pals and an indirect, improbable part in the victory at Waterloo...
...leadership means that eventually it will lead to driving AYD members out of the organization, or that it will lead to a misguided policy of blind opposition to the Communists, then the Liberal Union will merely be acting out the old saw about cutting off one's nose...
Margaret Truman, after a Missouri summer, was getting ready for some profile flashing in nosy Washington. Capital gossip had it that the President's daughter had been going in for some fancy nose remodeling. No such thing, said the White House...