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Word: nosing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there the comparison ends. Where Skeffington is a symbol, the healthiest specimen around of the classic Irish pol, Levine is very much a human being, his own man rather than the property of every voter who happens to own a brogue or a pug nose...

Author: By Francis J. Connolly, | Title: Citizen Levine | 9/11/1978 | See Source »

...your week, do it this way. Arrive a little bit late, at the risk of being stuck with the living room or the misfit in your rooming group. Yeah, that's right, the 400-pound sumo wrestler from East Schneck who listens to opera real loud, and picks his nose...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Six Approaches | 9/1/1978 | See Source »

...deep. We were beaten, but there were no regrets on board. The one that got away had put up a furious fight. The memory would last. There would be other nights to float on the black and silent sea and wait for the electrifying moment when a broadbill would nose up from the depths, ready to duel with anyone who waited to challenge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Stalking the Broadbill | 8/21/1978 | See Source »

...married and fathered five daughters. His eccentricities were notable chiefly because of their rarity. He liked to wear a hat in the office, pulled down so that his ears stuck forward. He doodled pictures that were ostensibly of Napoleon; around the prominent eyes and the high-bridged nose, they looked like self-portraits. And that was it. Colorful and bizarre living he left to his friends. In that regard, Scott and Zelda, Ernest, Tom and the rest rarely let him down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Anonymous Hero | 8/7/1978 | See Source »

...third triumph is Robert Moberly's ludicrous yet piteous Sir Andrew, whose cough cannot conceal a basically pasty-faced visage. For him plant stalks are a snare, his nose a source of itching, he skin a meal for flies and mosquitoes. Moberly is amazingly inventive; he runs the risk of submerging Anddrew in a dictionary of shtick, but succeeds in making it all work. I do not recall ever seeing any of Shakespeare's peripheral comics played more engagingly...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Here and There A 'Twelfth Night' | 7/18/1978 | See Source »

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