Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tanker. The position in which it hangs can be controlled by small movable vanes near the boom's tip. A man in the tail-gunner's turret of the tanker plane watches the receiving plane approach, and "flies" the boom into a socket on top of the nose. Then the fuel is forced through the tube under pressure...
...literary attack on the teacher, as Psychologist Charles analyzes it, had its first flowering during the flowering of New England. William Ellery Channing, for instance, seemed to think that the essential qualities of the schoolmarm were "gray hair and spectacles." Of his own schoolmistress he recalled: "Her nose was peculiarly privileged and honored, for it bore two spectacles. The locks which strayed from her close mobcap were most evidently the growth of other times." Clucking sympathetically, Oliver Wendell Holmes struck a similar note. The teacher he described in Elsie Venner was "a poor, overtasked, nervous creature-we must not think...
...fared no better, says Psychologist Charles. There was Washington Irving's gawky schoolmaster Ichabod Crane, "with huge ears, large green glassy eyes, and a long snipe nose, so that [his head] looked like a weathercock perched upon his spindle neck . . ." Tom Sawyer's bewigged schoolmaster was fussy, pedantic, strict ("his rod and his ferule were seldom idle") and frustrated ("The darling of his desires was to be a doctor, but poverty had decreed that he should be nothing higher than a village schoolmaster"). Wolfe's idea of a schoolmaster, also described in Look Homeward, Angel...
...well populated with face-lifters, and patients are generally satisfied with simple restoration jobs. But, says Doctor-Lawyer Louis J. Regan, author of Doctor and Patient and the Law (a doctors' guide on how to stay out of court): "When we try to improve on nature [e.g., by nose-bobbing], we find the patient doesn't always think...
...public. But the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists had run on to an exception. Its article on the H-bomb is a reprint from a book by well-known Austrian Physicist Hans Thirring, who had no access to secret information. The book was published in Vienna, right under the nose of the Russians...