Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...were held in the open air under a tent, the bidders sat on hard wooden chairs, and the average price for a yearling was closer to $5,000. The auctioneer's chant was only occasionally interrupted by Announcer Humphrey Finney. Eyeglasses perched precariously at the end of his nose, he chastised the audience in thick British accents: "Now, ladies and gentlemen, we're way too low on this filly. She's out of a stakes-winning mare by a half brother to the winner of the St. Leger." Then the auctioneer would continue, building purposefully to that...
...just for transportation, but a person who spends $4,000 to $5,000 for a car wants to be different." Apparently on the same theory, Ford Motor Co.'s 1972 Thunderbird is bigger than the 1971 model both inside and out, and its V-shaped nose has been slightly blunted. The Ford Torino will have a new oval-shaped grille, and the Continental Mark IV will be 4 in. longer. The Mercury Montego, which has not sold well in 1971, is being made to look like the better-selling Ford...
...neurologists. The Government scientists studied 35 of the 3,000 Americans known to suffer from idiopathic hypogeusia. The doctors confirmed the symptoms by placing drops of sour, sweet, salt and bitter solutions on the subjects' tongues and holding solutions smelling like onions or burned rubber under their noses. The NIH researchers were puzzled as to the cause of the condition but decided that it does not appear to be psychosomatic. At least half of the patients developed their symptoms following influenza-like illnesses. Others began to suffer from the disability after undergoing surgery unrelated to the nose, mouth...
...debate produced such a strange alignment of forces that the outcome was never certain. The House approved the loan guarantee by a slim 192-189. In the Senate, Texas Republican John Tower, leader of the pro-Lockheed forces, could make no accurate nose count as his col- leagues prepared to vote this week-before beginning a one-month holiday. If the loan guarantee is not approved, Lockheed warned, the firm will run out of cash before Congress returns...
...traditional school I came from, you just sat at a desk copying from a book and all that junk. It was a big game to see if you could chew bubble gum all day and sometimes stick it on your nose without the teacher noticing. Here you learn responsibility...