Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that has changed now. For two years Penn and Harvard battled nose-to-nose, and both years Harvard had the last punch by winning at the Easterns. But last spring an upstart Navy crew embarrassed both Ivy teams by crushing the competition. The days of dynasties were over, and the heavies are competitive again. With strong teams such as Brown and Northeastern and Rutgers threatening to upset the old rulers. Harvard will be fighting to win each race this spring...
...even to play Ping Pong. During World War II, he conceived the idea of using pigeons in guided-missile control; three birds were conditioned to peck continuously for four or five minutes at the image of a target on a screen. Then they were placed in harness in the nose of a missile, facing a screen on which the target would appear when the missile was in flight. By pecking at the image moving on the screen, the pigeons would send corrective signals that moved the missile's fins and kept it on target. The missile, called the Pelican...
...posters were torn down and his workers harassed. Duc himself has been pelted with stones and rotten eggs. In this campaign's most flagrant incident, an opposing government candidate spat a mouthful of beer over him in a restaurant. When Duc responded with a punch in the nose, he was jailed on a charge of attempted murder and released only on the demand of a majority of the House...
...myself," says Marcello Masfroianni in a lavishly self-flagellatory article in the September McCall's. "I never did, even physically. I don't like my body when I look at myself naked. These childish legs and arms. I don't like my face, with this short nose and these fleshy lips. I'm cute. And a man must not be cute." Other admissions: "I'm ignorant. After ten pages of a book, my eyes close. I can't even read the newspaper. I don't feel at ease with American women. They...
...Akkadian Code of Eshnunna. Goetze translated the code, which predates the 3,700-year-old Code of Hammurabi by more than 150 years. It showed that price controls were used in the ancient Babylonian kingdom and that criminal penalties were carefully spelled out: "If a man bites the nose of another man and severs it, he shall pay a fine of one pound of silver...