Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nation could not quite believe that UNO was really in danger of blowing up. The land of the airborne custard pie and the quick punch in the nose, of the goon, the stink bomb, the special deputy and the Bronx cheer had never found peace very peaceful. In the midst of their own private postwar fights over wages, rents and nylons, many a U.S. citizen saw nothing out-of-the-way in the United Nations quarrel over Iran...
...Janeiro, 36-year-old José Lourival de Santana had no such luck. José's nose had been neatly amputated by a burglar's well-aimed razor slash. He was rushed to a hospital. A tidy policeman dropped the nose into a garbage can. Young Dr. Paulo Marques de Souza thought José's nose could be saved. First it had to be found. It was-after six hours among the garbage...
Surgeon de Souza cleansed the nose, pared the edges, which had already begun to wither, made a circular cut in the patient's abdomen, buried the nose under four layers of tissue, then sewed up the incision. To Rio newsmen he explained that: 1) stomach tissues would provide better nourishment; 2) if the nose had become contaminated, it was easier to fight infection in the abdomen...
...nose died. Sadly, Surgeon de Souza explained: too much time had elapsed between the injury and the operation. Hopefully, he offered to carve a new nose from José's hip and graft it on his face. José shook his head, he murmured: "Perhaps some day I will kill that burglar. When the judge asks me why, it will be as plain...
...late winter he goes up into the hills to live with Massot, the shepherd. "Madame Massot received me with clasped hands. . . . She was an agreeable country lady, very ugly; with so much goodness in her blind eye, so much goodness in her moustache, in her snuff-taking nose, in her sagging cheeks, in her black-lipped mouth, that she was frightfully ugly. It was an ugliness made of all that sacrifice, of all that martyrdom which constitutes real goodness...