Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...simpering old party with a tongue like a blowtorch. It was a real power struggle: Ma had a loud voice in making church policy and a death grip on the temple's purse strings. To shake her loose, Aimee once went so far as to bust her nose. Ma struck back by dishing out some dirt about Sister Aimee's finances...
...very little basic stuff, but charges happily into some of the more advanced techniques. Her style sometimes is enough to make one want to quit. The first sentence under the heading "Nibbling, Nipping, Eatting, Licking and Sucking" (about half of the chapter is, "Now don't turn up your nose and make that ugly face!" The whole chapter has the attitude of "Don't knock it until you've tried it," which is fine. But some of the reasons for doing these techniques are not exactly ones you would think of on your own: one of the advantages of learning...
...sure, his left (or non-drinking) hand shooting out sharp jabs, a shoulder thrust forward and the curly graying head pulled in protectively as a close neighbor to the shoulders. He hooked the New York Times for its general timidity or unimaginative misinter-pretations; he bloodied the nose of technology for its spiritless contributions; he pillowed ideological liberals before abandoning them in a neutral corner. These were old foes he had knocked kicking on his better outings, though on this night he could not seem to care enough to expend wind in their pursuit...
...that hateful dictator and the bleating industry which he leads around by the nose all lose their fur-lined shirts on this graceless, hideous, frumpish monstrosity! I, for one, refuse to start looking like my own grandmother at the whim of this tyrannical male chauvinist...
...bombing. The weapons include three "smart" bombs that can be launched from a safe distance. One is the Shrike, which electronically homes in on the radar units used by SAMs. Another is the Walleye, which is steered to the target by means of a television camera in its nose. The Israelis are also interested in a third system called Pave Way, which employs two planes. One plane, which flies well out of range of enemy fire, trains a laser beam on a ground objective like a spotlight. The second plane dashes in and tosses a bomb, which follows the laser...