Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Roman Nose. Caron was arrested and charged with bringing heroin from Mexico into the U.S. While he did not know the name of the man who was his contact in Connecticut, Caron described him initially as "a man of Italian or Jewish ancestry, Roman nose, curly hair, dark-complexioned." Miller is a light-complexioned man of Irish background who has wavy hair and a straight nose. Yet, when Caron was asked to look over some mug shots, one of two photos he picked out was that of Miller, who was known to federal authorities because of his friendship with...
...imports. The Maverick is much lower and wider than the Volkswagen, which Ford executives call "the target car." It is also a bit thirstier-Ford claims about 22 miles per gallon v. the VW's 25 m.p.g. -and nearly two feet longer, measuring 179 in. from its broad nose to its short tail. But the Maverick is also several inches shorter than such "compacts" as Ford's Falcon, which has grown to 184 in. in length and $2,283 in price. Partly because more and more Americans want smaller and less costly cars, imports have swelled from...
...chapter headings don't clear the confusion any. They're clever (no Cox legalese like "Conditions Giving Rise to the Disturbances"), but hopelessly obscure. Oh so faintly does "Dick Greeman's Bloody Nose" presage the Administration's first attempt to call in the police in the middle of the next chapter. (Greeman, a faculty member, had his scalp split open when he stood between an advancing plainclothesman and the Low Library barricade. Vice-President Truman recalled Greeman's injury as a "bloody nose...
ADOPTION of communal ideology sometimes causes the book to trip on its nose. We are to celebrate the liberated life within the occupied buildings, it says, life in which "the process of working together [has become] as important as the work itself." The book provides an example of the new purposefulness. "Anyone want to form an effigy committee?" "An effigy of what?" "Anything, man!") The book smiles on benevolently...
...last week's NCAA, he went in ranked seventh and came out with third and an All-America rating. His third place put was especially remarkable considering the severe cold and bloody nose he had at the time. This year, he is in good health and is ranked fourth...