Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gonzalez, now 47, first got his fireworks reputation when, as a young champion of peoples' rights, he played cops & robbers with Dictator Carlos Ibañez' police. Arrested, he begged permission to blow his nose, instead sprinted two blocks to the Radical Club, where fellow members protected him. As late as last year, quick-tempered Sr. Gonzalez slung an inkwell at a fellow Senator in a congressional free...
...special purposes, penicillin can be used successfully, under a doctor's prescription, in lozenges, creams, ointments, nose sprays, snuff...
Many of the younger pilots needed accurate navigation to get anywhere above the overcast, but Mantz flew along at 30,000 feet, using instruments, but to hear him tell it, following his nose. The first time he saw ground was at Pueblo, Colo. "I spotted it through a break in the clouds just off to the right where I wanted to be." He sat back, gazing at the steamy floor of cloud just below him. "I was sloppy . . . sometimes I'd let the plane climb as much as 1,000 feet without doing anything about it," said...
...South Bend, Mantz began to let down for his approach to the field at Cleveland. His nose (and a compass he hadn't bothered to have accurately calibrated) brought him in over the finish line first. His speed: 435.6 m.p.h., which was 153 m.p.h. faster than Frank Fuller's 1939 record, the last time the race was held. In second place: Old Hand Jacqueline Cochran Odlurn, Bendix champ in 1938, also flying...
More serious was the problem of landing on the moon without smashing the radio to smithereens. Parachutes would not help, for the moon has little or no atmosphere. Dr. Hutcheson's solution: a tiny radio in the nose of the rocket. Working like the proximity fuses in antiaircraft shells, it would detect the approach of the moon's surface and fire "braking rockets" at the proper distance. Shooting their power forward, they would counteract the moon's gravitational pull (one-sixth as strong as the earth's), and allow the whole apparatus to make a sufficiently...