Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...administrative system which President Conant inherited was creaking in every joint. After a bumbling start, Conant learned to pick good administrators and then keep his nose out of their day-to-day business. The test of his "coordinated decentralization" came during the war, when he was able to spend as much as 75% of his time on National Defense Research Committee affairs, far removed from Harvard...
...years, Horace ("Doc") Schwerin has found it good business to stick his nose in other people's business. As a buck private, he sounded off about Army life...
...delivery of 5.7 million bu. of rye. But there were only 4.2 million bu. of rye available in Chicago. Speculators who had sold rye short, gambling that the price would drop before they had to deliver, scurried for cover. They had to find rye or pay through the nose...
Finally-bingo!-a shiny new sedan piled smack into the mound. Satisfied onlookers crowded around to console the driver, who stood in the sand and held his smashed nose...
Three days before the fight, ominous words came from Servo's camp. Cried Servo's manager Al ("The Vest") Weill: "My boy can't breat' t'rough the right side of his nose; he ain't gonna fight no Robinson. . . ." The official explanation: Servo had been biffed by a sparring partner...