Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...afternoon last week, less than two minutes later ignominiously exploded. The failure of the missile (control-system malfunction, officials explained) was bad enough; worse, this Atlas was the first fully powered U.S.-made ICBM to be flight-tested. It carried for the first time a wedge-shaped tactical nose cone capable of carrying a hydrogen-bomb warhead, and it was powered by three engines that burned simultaneously from the moment of ignition and generated more than 350,000 Ibs. of thrust. Atlas score, so far in nine launchings: three successful limited-range (600 miles plus) flights, six midair failures...
...patrol of eight Siamese cats keeps watch on everything interesting. Beadle is fond of all cats, but Siamese cats are his favorites. He explains that they would be dark all over except for a mutated gene that permits dark pigments to be formed only in places (ears, tail, nose, etc.) that have a low temperature...
...Suburban Handicap at Belmont, headed for a fine upset finish. But ancient (42) Eddie Arcaro was aboard Bold Ruler, who was laboring under a whopping 134 pounds. Arcaro coaxed another ounce of will out of Bold Ruler, and the horse surged past Clem to win by a nose...
Passman showed who was boss next morning (his 58th birthday), when the full committee voted down two attempts to restore specific cuts. In a final nose-thumbing, the committee chopped the appropriation for the Administration's imaginative Development Loan Fund from a requested $625 million all the way down to $300 million. By the time the committee got through with its report for the House, the military and economic-aid appropriation had been cut to $3,078,000,000-a dangerous fall from the $3,950,092,000 in the original Administration plan and a serious slip below...
...seconds of the first round to put New Jersey's Vince Martinez on the deck in their fight for the welterweight championship of the world. Martinez managed to get up, but it was a painful mistake. Akins dropped him eight more times in three more rounds, flattened his nose, and finally knocked him so cold that Referee Harry Kessler did not even bother to count...