Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...makes no sense for the U.S. to reverse its concept of Formosa's strategic importance and at the same time cling stubbornly to the old, down-the-nose political attitude towards Formosa's Nationalist government. Yet so far as I can judge here, this is precisely what the U.S. State Department is undertaking to do. I can state as fact that no instructions to modify or alter in any way our political, diplomatic and military relations with the government of this island have been received by U.S. representatives here...
Then, in the middle of the long trial, big Tom suffered a heart attack. He listened to closing arguments from a stretcher, picking his nose moodily and getting an occasional shot of morphine from a hovering nurse. Last week an ambulance rushed Tom, resplendent in yellow silk pajamas, from an Oakland hospital to the courtroom to hear the jury's verdict. It found him guilty of stealing $14,750 from his followers (maximum penalty: 50 years). Said Tom Patten, flat on his back but still cocky: "There'll be a battle royal before they get me behind bars...
...guys, but I'm not. I just say things a lot of girls don't have the nerve to say to their men." Has anyone considered her show suggestive? "I never say more than 'I'd like to kiss you on the end of the nose'-something impersonal like that," she explains indignantly. "I might tell a guy how nice it would be to spend a weekend in a small and charming hotel-but I always add: 'If we were married...
...better bred than the men," its intense, fearless little captain drove it to win the respect of its opponents and the hospitality of Pasadena's uppity Midwick Country Club. Meanwhile, headlong Darryl Zanuck became a two-goal player at the price of such injuries as a smashed nose and a broken hand...
...more than half a year the editors of this yearbook had been telling the populace that it was going to come out before Commencement. The populace turned up its nose and recalled the '47-'48 Album that came out last spring, or the '46 Album that arrived last fall. It spoke gently of the '49 Album that has yet to come out. It wasn't going to fall for a sales line...