Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nose-Counting. So the screening orders went out, and General Ridgway passed them on to the Eighth Army, which passed them on to the Second Logistical Command at Pusan, and so on down. The screeners did their best, but their best was poor. Some compounds successfully resisted all screening. Undoubtedly, there were many men who hungered for freedom, but had no way of making their wishes known. In one compound where anti-Communists had got the upper hand, the leaders announced they would hold a preliminary screening of their own. They called for repatriation volunteers; when two loyal Communists stepped...
Personality: Straight-backed, broad-shouldered, tall (6 ft. 2 in.), greying at the temples, with long nose, direct eyes. Friends call him Wayne. Sharp and decisive in military matters, he has considerable social charm, and is a good speaker...
JOHN RINGLING NORTH, at 48 the guiding spirit of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus, is a burly, stubby man with an air of natural vigor about him. His thick eyebrows are black, the color of his face is high, and the flesh around his nose and jaw inclines to coarseness. He moves fast, with a short, brisk stride, and makes rapid gesticulations with his short-fingered, square-palmed hands when he talks. (He is not often silent.) There is nothing light or graceful about him when he stands chunkily on his own two feet...
Ever since the late great Joseph Pulitzer's death in 1911, his St. Louis Post-Dispatch under his son and namesake, now 67, has maintained its tradition for digging beneath the news and exposing malefactors. Using its sharp nose for hidden news, the P-D (circ. 400,218) has already won four Pulitzer Prizes for "disinterested and meritorious public service rendered by a U.S. newspaper," more than any other daily. This week the P-D cinched its title by winning the Pulitzer Prize* again for its outstanding digging throughout...
Leonardo's name conjures up a heavy-browed, sad, hawk-eyed man, with a straight nose, mouth firm to the point of cruelty, and a flowing silver beard. In contrast to that awesome image of masculine rigor, it also recalls the dark, soft femininity of his most famed creation-the Mono. Lisa. This painting, which hangs in the Louvre, is probably as well known as any in existence-though few admirers pretend to grasp it fully. A portrait of the wife of a Florentine merchant named Francesco del Giocondo, it has been the subject of a towering stack...