Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...perhaps, another and reverse shift is due. Eisenhower has named to the job a stocky, straight-shouldered man with a strong nose, bleak blue eyes and a disarming smile. George Magoffin Humphrey, 62, is the 55th U.S. Secretary of the Treasury. By all readable portents he will be the first in a generation to restore Treasury to its function of high policymaking-by fiscal leadership-not by bureaucratic control of business...
Like a "dope in shining armor" (his own description), a young man with a broken nose and a pair of dark glasses bounded into Manila's City Hall and plumped himself down at the mayor's desk. The broken nose, a football injury, belonged to Arsenio H. Lacson, 40, the ribald, rambunctious reformer whom Manilans chose as their first elected mayor in 1951. Lacson was back at his desk last week after 73 days' suspension from office by Filipino President Elpidio Quirino...
...Carlo Lorenzini ("Collodi") wrote the story of Pinocchio in 1880, has been collecting pennies from schoolchildren the world over to build a monument to its famous little wooden-headed citizen. Each contributor has received a certificate entitling him to tell one harmless lie a week without damage to his nose. Last week such a license was on its way to Walt Disney, who filmed the story of the puppet in 1939 and who had sent a contribution...
...twin, Roger, gave no such hopeful signs. He was in a deep coma, barely staying alive on an ounce of formula every half-hour by a tube through the nose. The doctors could not be sure what minute might be his last...
Desiree did, and a lucky thing too, for on the morrow whom was she to meet but the assistant to the deputy for Marseille, a young man named Joseph Buonaparte. And right in the middle of their conversation, she had to blow her nose. Joseph "could hardly believe his eyes" when he saw the collapse in prospects. He decided he liked her sister better, and handed Desiree down to his little brother, Napoleone. In time Desiree fulfilled her physical promise, and Napoleone asked her to be his wife...