Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ordeal can be excruciating. Early in the process, which can take a week or ten days, the addict's eyes water and his nose runs while sweat pours from his body. By the third day, he is likely to be wracked by severe intestinal cramps, diarrhea, vomiting and nerve spasms. Goose bumps cover his body; they make his skin resemble that of a plucked fowl and give the process its name in the U.S. Cold turkey is rarely fatal-the Japanese claim 100% survival for those treated in hospitals-but the urge to commit suicide can be strong...
...know what went through the scrambled circuits of Laszlo Toth's brain when he climbed over the guardrail of the chapel of the Pieta in St. Peter's Basilica and started battering with his hammer at the Madonna's resigned stone arm, the folded veil, the nose, the translucent shell of her left eyelid. But one may guess: Toth had lost all power to distinguish between an image and the reality it denotes...
...four laps of the 21-mile rectangular speedway was a phenomenal 195.940. That average was achieved in one of the sleekest new cars, an Eagle-Offenhauser designed by Los Angeleno Roman Slobodynskyj. Besides wings, the vehicle has air scoops streamlined into its sides, thus reducing the drag caused by nose scoops...
...varsity race the Huskies, who while compiling an undefeated record were still not given a second look for the title by experts before the race, had the slowest qualifying time in the six-boat finals, but pulled off a break-neck finishing sprint in the final 500 meters to nose out Brown for the laurels by a full-length...
...MOVIE abounds in visual puns, a subtler cinematic kind of burlesque. The buffoonery of Chaplin's extricating himself from a newly unveiled statue is climaxed when he inadvertently thumbs his nose at the mayor by using the statue's hand. When a waiter brings the inebriated Tramp a plate of spaghetti, it's inevitable and delightful that our hero should also chew up one of the party streamers festooning the room. Buckets of water in the face, stones accidentally falling on innocent toes, police as easily misdirected as the Keystone Cops: it's all there. And in the only specifically...