Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sermisy chanson which begins Au joly boys, en Tombre d'ung soucy,' and John pointed out that the whole phrase moved toward Tombre and its very nasal French vowel. Well, nobody was singing it correctly. So finally he said. 'When you sing Tombre, see nothing but a tremendous nose: Tombre,' which was really a good way of explaining to a vocalist that French vowels should vibrate in the nose and mask of the face when he or she sings. But it was such a great way to get it across." Someone interjected. "Definitely. Better than lots of technical description...
...stink is more than just nose-wrinkling. It is bad enough to make some people retch in the street. Outdoor parties are canceled, and people retreat to their houses, shutting the windows and turning on the air conditioners...
...fell early in the second half when a Yale defensive lineman punched Harvard end Pat McInally, breaking his nose. McInally, who caught eleven touchdown passes in the first five games, took Harvard's chances of a win with him when he left the game...
...course of the play, and each time it brings a laugh. To express surprise his mouth opens into a huge rectangle and stays there for seconds. When he is in pain or sorrow, he screws up his entire face so that all we can see is part of his nose. It's an outrageously exaggerated performance, and it works...
...this expensive exercise, they have instituted the Charles W. Thomas Fund. One junior officer invoked a more primitive grievance procedure. Furious over what he considered an unfair performance rating, he stopped his superior in a corridor of the State Department and cut loose a smacking right cross to the nose...