Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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First they fed him nine baked bananas at a meal. Then they tried oxalic acid. Finally, Jones dipped a piece of sponge in some chloroform, formed a cone with a towel and stuck it on Rice's nose...
Although he suffered a broken nose midway through the Princeton game, Meigs made it one of his best games this year. Cochran recovered a fumble in the end zone for the first Crimson touchdown, and Gianelly set up the second after taking a lateral from tailback Sam Eyock...
...harsh hushed land and works. "It must be understood, she wrote in old age, "that my collection of Indian pictures was not done in a comfortable studio. You have got to go out and wrestle with the elements, with all your senses alert . . . You have got to hold your nose against the smell of rotten fish, and you've got to have the creeps. You must learn to feel the pride of the Indian in his ancestors, and the pinch of the cold, raw damp of the West Coast, and the smell and flavor of the wood smoke...
...reasonably certain that no man ever said to Alice B. Toklas: "If you could only cook!" Small, wiry and quite bereft of feminine charm, she was once cattily described as "the lady with the melancholy nose." But cook she could-or at least she went into the kitchen armed with glorious recipes...
...gallery enclosed in plastic so that the ball-bearing "bullets" cannot bounce out. As in other years, dolls do almost everything that real babies can do-and one does something more: Ideal's Betsy Wetsy ($5.98) not only drinks, wets, weeps, coos and sleeps, but also blows her nose, helped by a quick squeeze of her middle. Robert the Robot, an Ideal flashing-eyed mechanical monster ($5.95), can be made to move forward and back, swing its arms and recite: "I'm Robert the Robot, the Mechanical Man." Ideal also has a "radio"-equipped FBI car that broadcasts...