Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fall edition of the magazine Forecast, Technical Editor Irys Vorel wrote that the stars indicate an Eisenhower victory. Said Editor Vorel: "We feel the Libra-scales are going to tilt a little wee bit toward the Eisenhower side and that ... he's going to win by a nose." ¶Onetime (1924) Democratic candidate for President John W. Davis, who declared for Willkie in 1940, joined up with Democrats for Eisenhower because "corruption . . . carelessness, complacency and favoritism in Government circles demand a change...
...Yardlings' victory wrapped up the day successfully. In a neck and neck duel by two undefeated freshman captains, Tempe Lowrey of Princeton and Al Wills of Harvard, Wills came out a nose ahead to win. They both had identical times of of 14:48 over the shortened 2.8 mile course...
...loves "blood and gunpowder." Hand-to-hand scrapping is his ideal: "Everything else [in war]," he assures Guy, "is just bumf and telephones." His pursuit of his ideal has left him with "a single, terrible.eye . . . black as the patch which hung on the other side of the lean, skew nose." His smile is a grim baring of carnivorous teeth; he grasps his cocktail glass in "a black claw" consisting of "two surviving fingers and half a thumb." He is fond of discoursing on the proper use of infantry. "You must use them when they're on their toes...
...distance, the nurse turned a page. Her nose jumped up six inches ready for the next sentence; but her eyes moved a little further, and saw the struggle. She cried in a tone of impatient despair, "Naughty...
...Windsor, and it seemed to enjoy cutting a dash. When it had crawled another two quick steps, it ended in the same grand pose. The nurse made ready to turn a page and again cried "Naughty" with keenest indignation. She turned the page. Her eyes and sharp little nose were directed at the next sentence on the top of the new page even before she had turned it. "Naughty, come back at once." The baby, still in mid-prance, even curving one wrist in an affected manner which horse- sculptors could only envy, looked back over its shoulder...