Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...looking at their faces again," the Caricaturists Society of America announced the results of a poll of its own members to determine "the perfect female face." Resulting composite: the "violet, limpid" eyes of Elizabeth Taylor; the forehead, "white, smooth and pure," of Kim Novak; the "cute, slightly turned-up" nose of Songstress Teresa Brewer; the "ripe, sultry and suggestive" mouth of Anita Ekberg; the "silky and soft" hair of Sophia Loren; the "firm, yet round and petite" chin of Natalie Wood; the "slender, yet strong" neck of Canada's Skater Barbara Ann Scott; the "sulky, passionate" eyebrows of Prima...
Coming back to his take-off point at Edwards Air Force Base in the Mojave Desert, he pulled up the nose of the X-13 until it was hovering noisily like a rotor-less helicopter. Then he descended under the framework and maneuvered the batlike plane into take-off position. After two such demonstrations, the X-13 was tipped onto its belly and wheeled into the hangar like any other jet plane...
...Navy Aerobee-Hi research rocket climbed last week to 126 miles above White Sands Proving Ground, N. Mex. Besides conventional instruments for upper-air research, it carried in its nose a precious but expendable pay load: the electronic guts of a satellite. In an aluminum can 10 in. long and 5 in. in diameter were instruments and circuitry as complicated as six TV sets...
...near future to test components of the satellite and its launching vehicle. At the Missile Test Center, Cape Canaveral, Fla., the satellite's first-stage rocket (a modified Viking) is about to be launched with the small third-stage rocket sticking out of its nose. This combination is nothing like the complete launching vehicle. The second-stage rocket will contain the most subtle guiding instruments, and its omission will make the flight a comparatively crude affair. But valuable information can be gathered about the performance of the third-stage rocket, whose purpose is to start firing about 300 miles...
...Eisenhower said at his press conference that Britain had a heroic row to hoe in trying to keep its economic nose above water, and that it is trying to cut the cloth to what it has, not to what it would like to have. As we understand it, what the President is saying here is that the British are having to sink or swim in their effort to plant the seedbed of a viable economy, and that they cannot insist upon sewing too fine a seam in doing it. To put it another way and quite simply, the United Kingdom...