Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York City detectives have blandly proved to the world that the long arm of the law can't see beyond its short nose, at least so far as the Schuster case is concerned...
Switzerland, which has not been invaded since 1815, believes in keeping its powder dry, its nose clean and its cupboard full. Two years ago, fearing a World War III, the Swiss government advised its citizens to stock up their pantries. Last week, apprehensive lest its citizens are becoming too complacent, the War Office urged all householders to look to their larders again. For the first time, the War Office arranged for the sale of a $2 package containing a minimum one-person, two-month ration of imported products (two kilos of rice, two of sugar, and one liter...
...fell into the ministry of a fanatical Orthodox priest, Father Konstantinovsky who called him a "swine," and plied the bellows to Gogol's visions of hell fire. Poor Gogol was always chilly now, a twisted little man with a long fox nose, big close-set eyes, a loose little mouth full of bad teeth. For two years before his death, he was often without the power of connected thought. One day he burned most of the manuscript of Part II of Dead Souls. Then he refused to eat. On March 4, 1852, at the age of 43, he died...
...professional son of a professional soldier: "This is a letter to an Army wife. I don't want tears spilled on it! . . . Early in March, I leave for Korea. I will fly a B-26 in combat. I am the pilot. I will have a bombardier in the nose, a navigator beside me and a gunner in the rear. We will fly at night. I carry bombs and machine guns, and I will know how to use them...
...corridors of the United Nations-whether in New York or Paris-have grown used to an untidy priest. He is tall and strikingly handsome. He has that reserved, proconsular look, the bony nose, the clear eyes, the careless hair that the British prefer for their archetype rather than the beery John Bull. His speech is slow and unemotional. He is never without a briefcase that bulges, like a refugee's pack, with badly duplicated memoranda and official reports. He is the Rev. Michael Scott; he has no official position, not even a parish. He can point to few positive...