Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bayonne, N.J., liquor salesman with the flattened nose and battered professional record fell to a flurry of blows from a jabbing, quick-punching...
...supercilious, Oscar Wilde face, with a nose that richly deserved tweaking. It adorned a new publication called The New Yorker, and the smart money said of face and magazine, as Dorothy Parker had once said of a pair of amorous gorillas: "I give them six months...
...developed 155-mm. shell. Fired from a conventional cannon, the 6-in. shell sprouts tail fins and small forward wings to prevent spinning. It can be aimed up to 500 yds. wide of a target illuminated with a laser beam projected by a forward observer. A "seeker" in the nose of the shell picks up the laser reflection, controls the fins and thus guides the shell to the target. Another application of the laser is giving tank guns more accurate range finders. Once they get a target in their sights, tank gunners merely press the laser button, hitting the enemy...
Pepys kicked his cook and sold a black servant into slavery to finance his already ample stores of chocolate and sherry. Once, while in bed, he blacked an eye of the wife he married when she was 15. More regularly, he pulled her nose and terrorized her about kitchen expenses. Against his enemies, or his imagined enemies, he was capable, in Ollard's words, of "scurrility verging at times on the hysterical." Yet Ollard feels compelled to insist that here, dear reader, stands a "kindhearted...
...from retirement for this circumspect celebration. That was a clue, of course all of those whimsical hot shots, together in one issue, meant something special was up. There were other clues: the cover was the annual portrait of Eustace Tilley, The New Yorker's elegant, top-hatted, curly-locked, nose-in-the-air, monacieclutching mascot. That told readers the magazine was celebrating some anniversary. And on page 134 there was the best clue of all, a four-line filler reeking of esoterica and tradition. It read...