Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Samson had been arrested during the march away from the hotel rally along with 14 others. He appeared in court with bandages over his nose and check bone. During his arrest, the officer had smashed his glasses which splintered into his eyes and broke his nose, Samson told Judge Adlow...
...Pusey, at a Harvard House dinner last year, delivered his traditional speech while one table of students passed around a pipe full of glowing grass; where President-elect Bok sat last weekend at a dinner in Holvoke Center and watched the guests of honor pass a joint under his nose. It seems unnecessary when there has been no evidence to prove that marijuana is as debilitating as alcohol, without which this University and most of American society could not function...
...interviewer, a tall thin woman who looked the epitome of New England clam chowder, didn't smile. "Hello," she said, "What was your class rank? How were your boards?" My transcript was sitting right under her upwardly mobile nose, but I answered timidly...
...mask is off and he is living his own life, Scott has often turned to savage punishment of himself and those around him. He has candidly called his heavy drinking "an addiction" and saloons, for their easy conviviality, "a very necessary part of my life." He has had his nose broken several times in barroom brawls. "This sort of thing happens to actors who have a reputation for being tough guys," he says in a defensive rationale. "There's always some guy who wants to take you apart. I'm not Marciano and I can't keep this stuff...
...never complained or cried," George's sister Helen recalls. "He broke his nose playing football; he cut his head open diving into somebody in a swimming pool; he was hit by a golf club and run over by a car." Says Scott: "With a couple of exceptions, I was completely unloved. I owe much of my being alive to my sister, who more or less raised me. We were abnormally close...