Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most painful struggle is entitled "The Snake Man." This tale tells of a spy who carries a snake beneath his coat. Unless the spy was ticklish and the snake had a cold nose, there is nothing even laughable about the entire affair...
...backwoods illiterates. "Long live Nehru," shouted the crowds, pleased and happy to have had a glimpse of the great man. To many of them, India, the Congress Party and Nehru were one and the same thing; in tiger-plagued Orissa an election crowd of loinclothed tribesmen and their nose-ringed women startled political reporters by referring to Nehru as the King...
...this was no bellywhopping slide over a gentle snow-covered slope. On his beefed-up steel "skeleton," Bibbia was running down the ice-slick Cresta sled run. His objective: a descent fast enough to win him the Cresta sledders' Carder Cup. Face low in the biting wind, his nose scant inches from the ice, Bibbia scudded into Curzon, the first turn on the twisting chute. The special, spike-toed Cresta shoes that were his only brakes were clear of the glass-hard groove as he slid along, and by the time he hit the straightaway at Junction, dropping...
...that point it is plain that the famed author of Rebecca has not lost her tricky gift for making the reader hold his breath when literary esthetes tell him he should be holding his nose. To her romantic shopgirl's imagination. Novelist Du Maurier brings a proficiency for making imminent doom race impending revelation neck and neck, chapter by chapter. Loyal fans need only be told that they will be nervous wrecks by the end of The Scapegoat...
Engle wrote, "It is in the arts, in fact, that the Big Ten can rub that uplifted Ivy League nose in the poison ivy." He further claimed that the Big Ten's "flourishing orchestras are impossible at universities like Princeton and Harvard, which lack the breadth of talent and the broad integration of music into the curriculum...