Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...judge excitedly described the final hell-for-leather chase as "the greatest contest I have ever seen in a National ... At times, the fox was less than six inches from Eddie's nose. The entire pack was driving hard, but Eddie managed to maintain his position until the fox holed." Eddie, whose grandsire, Ringmaster, won three straight Nationals (1938-40), helped prove the old adage that blood will tell by beating the runner-up 375 judging points...
Dudley emerged from a winless streak by downing Lowell last Wednesday and hopes to continue uphill against Silliman College. The Commuters will be without the services of their captain, who broke his nose in the one victory...
...place made from an old seacoast fortress). He governs a land of 8,500,000 people and 35,000 square miles, plus overseas possessions (e.g., Mozambique, Macao) which make Portugal No. 3 of the world's colonial powers. His face-dominated by dark, thoughtful eyes and a long nose, and topped by neat, grey hair-rarely appears in the newspapers, and usually when he strolls through Lisbon's lush gardens or along its mosaic sidewalks, he walks alone without attendants or bodyguards in sight. Probably no more than half a dozen Portuguese have been asked...
...Local Medical Committee, deeply distressed "at the lack of any effective response from official quarters to what can truthfully be described as a national disaster," urged fellow townsmen to protect their lungs with sixpence worth of gauze folded into a six-layer mask and tied over the mouth and nose. The meshes of the mask, said the committee, would arrest most of the soot, while moisture from the breath, condensed on the mask, would prevent passage of some of the chemicals that cause lung trouble...
...mask. At the end of two days, many London chemists had sold all their gauze. Mayfair milliners hastily sketched up a line of fashionable "smoggles" in tulle, velvet and chiffon to please the modish dyspneic. One dress designer announced a "bunny mask" modeled on a rabbit's nose and containing a special filter. In the murk outside the Tottenham Court tube station, one Londoner-Shipping Clerk Dennis Michaels, 24, was actually seen wearing a gauze mask. Some passers-by stared and laughed. "How's the operation going, Doc?" called one. Fifteen minutes later, Dennis took off his mask...