Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This last week was highlighted by several eruptions on the Columbia political scene. First, the Spectator violated a 75-year precedent and put its editorial nose into national politics for the first time, supporting the candidacy of Stevenson...
...with an up-to-date but frightening toy: a footlong, six-ounce rocket, similar to the German wartime V2, that zooms off a three-foot-long launching rack at almost 90 m.p.h., shoots up 300 feet. At the top of its climb, a small parachute breaks out from the nose and lets down the rocket slowly. It can then be refilled with a charge similar to those in firework skyrockets and used again. Price in Germany, about...
...survey points out that the most characteristic of the Irish race are Keltics. These are the people with narrow heads, long narrow faces--with a narrow nose, a lantern jaw and blue eyes. The Keltics compose 25 per cent of the population...
Rocky appears much younger than his 29 years, and smaller than his 187 Ibs. fighting weight. He does not seem made for gore & glory; he never looms, except in the ring. Apart from his flattened nose (which he broke playing football) and the inevitable scars above his eyes, he looks more like a compactly built college athlete than a fighter. He has the rich tan and softspoken, self-effacing manner (though not the grammar) of a children's swimming instructor at a country club. To strengthen his heavy weapons, Rocky wears out rubber balls with repeated squeezings...
...student groups. The far left-wing element regularly denounced him as "a tool of Wall Street." This attitude was exemplified by an article in "The Nation" by a former head of the University News Office who denounced Conant, but added that "I hardly expect the University to thumb its nose at the Wall Street bankers who now help administer its finances...