Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wrong Airport. But what about MacArthur and what about Formosa? The question flapped along like the albatross as the Independence stuck her blue nose into the thick haze over Washington the next morning, passed over the fog-shrouded National Airport and landed instead at Andrews Air Force Base, twelve miles away (thus forcing Bess Truman, Secretaries Acheson and Snyder and the rest of the welcoming delegation to streak across town behind sirens). No one who knew Douglas MacArthur suspected that Harry Truman had talked him out of his conviction that Chiang Kai-shek should be shored up and Formosa defended...
Before heading to the Mayo Clinic for a slight nose operation, one-man rodeo Bill ("Hopalong Cassidy") Boyd took time out to go on a Voice of America program, gave Soviet moppets the low-down on redskins and rustlers, along with some Western philosophy: "Never kick a man when he's down; never shoot a man in the back...
...normal speech impossible. Rival schools in medicine and dentistry have long argued over the best time and the best way to perform surgery to help these handicapped children. Most orthodox surgeons favor operating at about 18 months-to prevent the development of bad speech habits and to ward off nose and throat diseases...
...girls donned dungarees, pulled on their shabbiest shirts and football jerseys. Then they crowded into the quadrangle, shouted and shoved, tossed fishheads about, along with such oddments as catsup, rotten fruit and bags of soot. They roared irreverent chants about their retiring rector: "Walter Elliot* has a big, beery nose...
Scarcely perceptible, the moustache is a spindly quarter inch by four inch ridge of bronze on either side of John's magnificent nose. Old timers in the Yard claimed John's moustache once was common knowledge...