Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Finally, Joe himself, accompanied by wife Jean, made a "surprise"' appearance. The place went wild. On the speaker's platform, McCarthy waxed emotional, flourishing a white handkerchief in front of his nose. There was some doubt as to whether he was weeping or merely flushing his bad sinuses, but the gesture was the signal for many of the women to burst into tears...
...barely see because of the cataracts in his eyes. Afternoons he worked in the prison gardens where occasionally his angina pectoris would grip his chest so that he would cry out and sink stiffly to the ground. A waiting guard would rush forward, break a Trinitrin capsule under his nose and the old man would get up and go back to work...
...Standing nose up on its delta-wing tips and four castered wheels, the Pogo resembles an outsize badminton bird. Test Pilot Skeets Coleman started the 5,500-h.p. Allison turboprop engine, and the two counterrotating propellers slowly lifted the plane up to 175 ft. Then, still hanging on its propellers, Pogo nosed over; as it began to pick up speed, it also began to pick up lift from its stubby wings, soon was sailing along in conventional level flight. After two 280-m.p.h. sweeps over the field, Pilot Coleman raised Pogo's nose, hovered like a helicopter over...
...independence or more economic support. The most persistent of recent irritations comes from the strategically located island of Cyprus, rising from the Mediterranean within gunshot of Turkey. The Cypriots have pleaded for independence, but the British answer has been as blunt and undignified as a punch in the nose...
...leading the league in total yardage. Ev Pearson has scored a total of 44 points in seven games to top the league. This offense looms formidable against the Crimson defense--the best in the league--but weakened by the questionable status of guard Bill Meigs, who broke his nose against Princeton last week...