Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...civilize 'em with a Krag rifle-and tried to. Then came years of civil rule, under strong and foresighted men like William Howard Taft and Henry Stimson. Taft's slogan was "The Philippines for the Filipinos." The U.S., which had always looked down its nose at colonial powers, persuaded itself that it was really engaged in a great anticolonial experiment: to make the Philippines "a show window of democracy...
...will over much of Luzon. In some places they levied taxes, ran their own schools and newspapers, and maintained a string of "production centers." They had the help and sympathy of thousands of villagers who found them less objectionable than the government itself. Their Politburo met under the nose of the government in Manila and boldly drew up a "strategic plan for the seizure of national power." At this point, the display in "the show window of democracy" looked pretty shabby...
...Premier Mossadegh used Washington's National Press Club as a rostrum, and drew as big a crowd as had Clement Attlee. Everyone wanted to see the faint-prone wonder. About all that most got out of it was a glimpse of a man with a Durante nose and a gleam of cunning in his eye. Less than half the crowd stayed through his 40-minute speech in Persian. Those who waited for the translation got only a tired tirade against the British, and one Mossadegh proposal, to wit, that the U.S. should lend him money...
...around to the car lights and looked in it and shined the light on it. He turned it on me again and pulled it and that time it fired. It went through me here [indicating his neck] and then I began to bleed out of my mouth and nose . . . I did not say anything and did not let them know I was not dead. And some people came...
...joints and fatigue. The fever may shoot to 106°, the pulse weakens, and blood pressure falls as in shock. In the acute stage, tiny hemorrhages in the eyeballs make them bloodshot; other hemorrhages appear under the skin of shoulders and belly, and there may be bleeding from the nose, kidneys or intestines...