Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...newspapers as ilustre, gentil, eminente. Now you just cannot translate some of these words nor the attitude that prompts them. Their English equivalents should be "illustrious," "genteel," "eminent," but they do not mean the same. Use them on a U.S. citizen and you might get a punch in the nose; use the Spanish words on a Latin and you might get a bow from the waist...
...jets. In 1948 Airman Selenger and three other wartime pilots formed the Air Force's famous "Acrojets," flew in 100 air shows across the U.S. While his wife and two children watched from the ground, Lefty would roar through the sky at upwards of 500 m.p.h., with the nose of his F-80 Shooting Star just 18 inches from the tailpipe of the lead plane...
...gunmount. On their tails they have four fixed fins arranged at right angles to one another. These keep the missile stable in flight, like the feathers of an arrow. The control surfaces are four small, triangular, movable fins one-third of the way back from the missile's nose. They can steer the missile, roll it and even give it lift, like an airplane in flight. All the fins have supersonic shapes; they are made of solid metal, with thin, diamond-shaped cross sections...
...Washington he worked unceasingly for a national anti-lynching law. His wife and Mrs. Herbert Hoover scandalized the South when the First Lady received her at a White House tea; shortly thereafter Alabama's late Senator "Tom-Tom" Heflin calculated that to "punch De Priest in the nose" would be worth at least 50,000 votes when Heflin ran for reelection...
...Farge, Germany, police found the end of a man's nose in a burglarized shop, plunked the clue in alcohol, two days later spotted their bandaged quarry, who confessed it would...