Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Distance Runner Chris Chataway has been a British favorite. Even though he won the three-mile race at the Empire Games in August, most of his fans remember him as the man who always finishes second. Last summer, at the European championships in Bern, Chris managed to nose out the great Czech runner, Emil Zatopek, in the 5,000- meter run-and still he finished second, behind Russia's Vladimir Kuc (rhymes with coots...
...Montgomery Ward & Co., Florida Financier Louis E. Wolfson and friends have been buying stock in the $1 billion-a-year store chain and mail-order firm at a fast pace (TIME, Sept. 6). Last week Wolfson arrived in Chicago to set up a proxy-soliciting office right under the nose of crotchety old Board Chairman Sewell Avery, and announced that he and his associates now own more than 500,000 shares (8% of the stock outstanding...
...draw out Leviathan with a fish hook? Can you put a rope in its nose or Plerce his Jaw with a hook? Will he play with you as a bird? Or will you put him on leash for your maidens...
...France sunk so low that the only means a French Premier has of gaining support is to thumb his nose at France's allies, even at the risk of sacrificing the future of Western civilization in Europe...
...near Poughkeepsie in 1921. He had entered the contest because he considered it a "real challenge": the only other man in the race was a postman. At Rutgers (where he was Phi Beta Kappa), he was an attack man on the varsity lacrosse team, and he has a broken nose to show...