Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...blaze of sexual hyperactivity and recrimination after about a year." A group organized around devotion to carrot-bulgur-lecithin surprise cake unglued when Frito crumbs were discovered in their beds. At an ashram, Howard is overdosed on the word "share" and honored by a guru who breathes up her nose. At a farm community she is told of a vegetarianism so strict that members wear no leather or down-filled clothing. Neither will they eat honey because it is "too heavy on the bees...
...move to the finish. The field was already left far behind. Affirmed and Alydar flew out of the final turn and into the home stretch, driving for the wire, joined in desperate struggle. With 3/16 of a mile to go, Alydar pushed in front by a nose, but Affirmed, running now on heart, reclaimed the lead with 20 yds. left. They thundered home, two great colts running in splendor. When it was over, Steve Cauthen put the dimensions of their duel with eloquent simplicity: "This was a horse race...
...finally herds them through three gates, across a narrow bridge and into a pen. All the while an English collie, Rob's distant cousin, watches through the fence with no apparent interest. "The English collie has been ruined," declares MacGregor. "He's got a long pointy nose and no room for brains. You've got to have a dog with a short nose and a good wide head, like Rob Roy here...
Within the Administration, there is general agreement on what the Cubans are up to: Castro, always the ideologue, is exporting revolution to win friends and thumb his nose at the U.S. But there are two importantly different schools of thought as to what the Russians are up to. One view is that the Soviets are, as usual, merely reacting to targets of opportunity; helping the Katangese rebels, for instance, gives them a chance for some low-cost, low-risk adventurism, with possibly big rewards. This is basically Vance's view, although he admits to some uncertainty about Moscow's ultimate...
...eggs on a white plastic plate. She begins again with renewed fervor and determination. And once more, the glint of sunlight on the river, the bouncing body that jogs by, the red girl playing a congo drum with Mao plastered on its side, the frisbee that nearly breaks her nose, distract her already wavering concentration...