Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...accident that all the higher centers of his brain were knocked out. Caring for him month after month at Shreveport Veterans Hospital was a forbidding task. Eventually, the doctors made an opening in the patient's abdominal wall and stomach for direct feeding. (This freed the patient of nose tubes, and if he ever recovered the power to chew and swallow food, his stomach and belly could be closed up again.) Then he was flown to New York City for stomach studies...
...Force Cambridge (Mass.) Research Center now tells of a gadget specially designed to do the job from a high-flying rocket. Developed at the University of Colorado, the "sun-seeker" has 21 photoelectric cells that peek from doors opened in the nose of the rocket as it climbs toward the top of the atmosphere. Sunlight falling on the cells tells them just where the sun is. They take note of this information and keep a spectrographic camera pointing straight at the sun, even though the rocket may be rolling...
...movies to prove it. Only once was Cousteau in danger from a shark; and that was when the blood-spoor of a dying whale was near, and the sharks were half-crazy with hunger and excitement. Cousteau scared the beast away by banging him on the nose with his underwater camera. A far greater nuisance, he says, is fire coral, which on contact produces a severe burning rash...
Golden Rule. In Lincoln, Neb., Lewis Mercy mercifully removed Richard Maul's glasses before thumping him on the nose and incurring a $10 fine for assault & battery...
...thirty-five characters are each sharply etched, sometimes by a gesture of the performer, sometimes by a line from the author. As Mrs. Pardiggle, an officious do-gooder, Williams seems to puff out, his voice crispens, his eye arrests. And Dickens delineates shrewish Mrs. Snagsby with "she has a nose like a sharp autumn-evening, inclining to be frosty...