Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...point that Rabin's entourage held conversations at Blair House last week in lowered voices, cryptic references, Hebrew military slang and even sign language because the Israeli secret service believed the rooms were bugged. One Israeli official cited a crude Arabic expression-translated roughly as "there is a nose on our tail"-to explain the need for caution...
...former Golden Gloves boxer -his battered nose a prominent record of his teen-age ring career -Scheider proved to be the steadiest member of the troupe. When tempers frayed and gloom hung heavy over the production, Scheider usually just tuned out and worked on his suntan...
...Seized and tortured for six hours, Zamora eventually managed to get the protection of Raúl Cardinal Silva Henriquez, head of Chile's increasingly oppositionist Roman Catholic Church. Zamora was examined by Silva's doctor and found to show burns on his arms, legs, genitals and nose, plus evidence of beating. With the help of the cardinal, he was able to get a safe-conduct pass out of the country, but at last word he was still in Santiago...
...papers, Glikes came off as a sap, a sweet guy who shared a few tender moments with Kearns until Goodwin swept onto the scene and left his nose out of joint. Kearns and Goodwin weren't so flattered by the newspapers' stage directions, but they both stressed Glikes's ingenuous attachment as a real wrench in the editorial works while Kearns had been with Basic...
...grabbed my nose first, and dragged it across expanses of rotting fruits and vegetables to the meat counter, where the flies were holding a grand council, preparing to carry away the whole shebang. No one but me seemed to be aware of the impending catastrophe: the butcher and his assistant kept hacking away at the three chunks of meat, prospective customers stood talking quietly in the general lassitude of a 90-degree day. Finally even the flies settled down in the warm calm...