Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...airliner, descending and beginning to turn, had overtaken the small, ascending craft from the rear. The 727's nose wheel hooked the Cessna and flipped the light plane against the airliner's lowered right wing. Both planes plunged toward the earth...
...still heading east as First Officer Robert E. Fox lowered the craft's wing flaps to slow it to 170 m.p.h. He dropped the landing gear and pulled the plane's nose up, in preparation for banking sharply to the right...
Excerpt " Of course, there's class. Look around you. A man driving a Cadillac feels he can thumb his nose at me because I'm driving an old V.W.' 'You know there's class when you're in a department store and a well-dressed lady gets treated better.' 'Most people look down on the poor like me because you have to live so shabby and can't help yourself.' 'I'm a carpenter and I won't fit with doctors and lawyers or in country club...
...King people are not too worried about Carter, however, and seem not to care much about whether or not he is-as reported this week-figuratively holding his nose over King...
...sheer crush of it all--but something was definitely missing. The faithful had pitched camp, sweating in their polyester skins and listening to the too-slick band that played "Mack the Knife" too slow and then sprinted through "Stardust". But the scavengers--curious little fish that nose around a campaign for a few months and then, once the blood is spilled, turn around and feed off the winner, tearing off little scraps like state jobs and discreet kickbacks--they weren't there. It must be too long a drive from Dukakis headquarters, you had to figure; and besides, this...