Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...behind the hit man, a professional enforcer who solves the crime before he hires the punishment. As an investigator, Cogan favors the direct approach. He sends two of the boys around to "talk about things" with Trattman. When they stop talking, Trattman's nose, jaw and several ribs are broken, but his story is still in one piece...
...that same pitiful pitching staff back too. The Pirate management has been deluding fans with that "much improved hurling corps" nonsense for at least five months, since the acquisition of Jerry Reuss and Kenn Brett. Although Reuss can be considered an improvement over the curleradorned Dock Ellis, or the nose-diving Steve Blass, the hard-throwing Brett could prove to be a better hitter than pitcher...
...baleful Hitler brooding over his destiny, a grinning Goebbels with his new bride, slinky Fräulein in satin smirking over drinks in a Munich nightclub. There are samples of humor: anti-Jewish jokes along with bitter comments on the regime ("In Germany teeth are being pulled through the nose because no one can open his mouth any more"). Excerpts from William L. Shirer's Berlin Diary give an American's impression of the scene. The period photographs and cartoons of Nazism aborning, the vivid paintings of rouged whores and marcelled flappers doing the Charleston evoke...
...began in 1971 to nose into Vesco's operations abroad. Sears said that he tried for months to persuade his old political friend John Mitchell to help Vesco get access to William Casey, then the SEC chairman, so that the financier could plead his case in person. Mitchell appeared sympathetic, but nothing happened, though Sears pointed out that Vesco had made a substantial contribution to Nixon's 1968 election campaign and that "he represented himself as being close to the Nixon family...
Jones' piling up of detail, which at times has overweighted his novels, proves quite an asset in this journal. He has a nose for those human quirks that override ideology. He notes that the clerks' coatroom at the South Vietnamese consulate in Paris is filled with mink coats. He notices that an officer is wearing an unauthorized third dog tag that reads, "If you are recovering my body,-you." He tunes in on a Vietnamese girl, who learned her English from a black G.I., as she tells of her gruesome experiences during the Tet offensive in the funky...