Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hawskin, veteran of Clinton, Tenn., and the Katyn Massacre, anticipates an early spring offensive in the class war. "We've been polishing our rifles and taking target practice in the U.T. wickers. Also, we kicked Sammy, the steward, downstairs three times in the last week. He had a bloody nose and everything. We are strong, the time will come...
...brought up on the Orinoco, you know. God's country, you know--God's country. My father was a trader, and my mother, Jane, well she was of creole stock. So I am almost a native myself." He took another whiff of blow-gun smoke, tweaked his head's nose and continued...
...U.S.S.R. began working on long-range ballistic missiles soon after World War II. The U.S. did not push ballistic-missile development until 1954, after U.S. physicists decided that they could do what they had said was impossible: make a nuclear warhead light enough to be carried in the nose of a missile...
...U.S.S.R.'s. The Russian rocket that carried the Lunik into orbit produced a lot more thrust than any U.S. missile, but if the military job of a ballistic missile is to travel accurately from one point on the globe to another with a warhead in its nose, U.S. missiles appear fit to do the job at least as well as their bulkier Russian counterparts...
...When I took over in 1951,'' he recalls, "I told lots of people immediately that this company was not going to be a sinecure for mediocrity. The old G.E. had a reputation as a good and complacent place to work if you kept your nose clean. I wanted to get rid of that idea and create more risk and opportunity." Says G.E. Director and Wall Street Broker Sidney Weinberg: "If you did something wrong, Cordiner would send for you and tell you you were through. That's all there would...