Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this and more the Wellesleyite pays through the nose, to the average tune of some $2500 per year--a large part of this falling in the catch-all category of personal expenses. High tuition, room, and board rates are traceable to the fact that few alumnae die and leave fortunes to Wellesley. The alumnae's husbands die and leave the money to Harvard...
...Change, Really. The Administration was finding its wrinkled-nose attitude toward Chiang Kai-shek increasingly awkward. The awkwardness was compounded last week when Major General Courtney Whitney told New York reporters that "all senior officers" in the Far Eastern command supported MacArthur on the use of Chiang's troops. There were still reservations in the Pentagon about the Nationalist army's effectiveness. The Army considered only 40,000 of the 400,000-man army were ready to fight, and then only under competent non-Chinese command. With U.S. training, the Army figured, the Nationalists might be ready...
Walther fixed an inhalator tube to the baby's nose, slipped the laryngoscope down behind the tongue root, lifted the "clapper valve" (epiglottis) and looked in. Clearly visible was a one-inch celluloid ball (from a rattle), filling the windpipe. Alligator forceps thrust down the channel of the surgical shoehorn brought the ball out in 30 seconds, and Baby Thomas gasped. Soon he was breathing regularly again...
Under the nose of two other Esso tankers, which had spent the day hunting survivors, the Virginia, owned by National Bulk Carriers, Inc., moved in after dark. Her men boarded the Greensboro while flames still flickered and began the slow tow to port. Last week the Virginia reached Galveston with its prize, and captain & crew got ready to put in their claim on the $2,000,000 tanker and about 100,000 barrels of oil cargo in six compartments which the fire failed to reach...
...delightful putting much gusto into her acting as the roaring girl, she still manages to extract a good deal of humor from her material. It is not Restoration wit that gets the laughs when she is on; it is Nancy Walker, pure and simple. She wipes her nose with her sleeve and makes love to a cello with a savage determination that is generally both frightening and funny...