Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...national noise of Britain early on a winter morning is a compound of hawk, cough and nose-blow. Wrote 17th-Century Doctor-Author Sir Thomas Browne: "The ancient inhabitants of this island were less troubled with coughs when they went naked and lived in caves...
...death, Tai Li had been a partner of secrecy and violence. He was a legend-to his enemies, an Oriental Himmler, Plehve and Torquemada combined; to his friends, a ruthless but righteous patriot. Even Tai Li's age was unknown; he was "about" 50. His flat brown nose, wide-set black eyes and triangular ebony brows had appeared in few published photos. His birthplace was Chekiang, Chiang Kai-shek's native province. He studied at Whampoa Military Academy, where Chiang was president...
...cornfield journalism, gruesome and otherwise, kept mild Bee Behymer from ever graduating from the Post-Dispatch, while generations of St. Louis newspapermen he knew (Westbrook Pegler, Theodore Dreiser, Silas Bent, Herbert Bayard Swope, et al.) came & went. A little (125 Ibs.) man with unruly grey hair, a too-big nose and a small mustache, he is proud that he never had to take a drink or buy one to get a story. As a solid senior citizen of Lebanon, Ill., he sings a raspy bass in the Methodist choir, is a trustee of small McKendree College, writes editorials...
...rocket's nose are instruments to record the composition of the upper atmosphere, its temperature, pressure and density. Later the Corporal may report on cosmic ray and meteoric conditions, and possibly provide new spectroscopic photographs of astral phenomena unimpeded by the optical distortion of the lower atmosphere. Heretofore the best information on the upper air has been supplied by radio-equipped weather balloons which level off some 20 miles below the Corporal's recorded ceiling...
...ownership of the offshore land is still undecided. Exploration by more conventional means - seismographic readings, examination of bottom samples - has indicated continuance of East Texas and Louisiana oilfields for distances as great as 50 miles offshore. By using a gravity meter in the diving chamber, Union Oil hopes to nose out salt domes. In the Gulf area these mounds of rock salt, which have a lower specific gravity than the surrounding sedimentary rocks, are often circled by rings of oil-bearing sand...