Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only reason to buy land is to keep your neighbor and his noise and nose at a distance, and to keep you off his back in turn. Better ten people with an acre each than ten people sharing ten acres. I would not give you cave-dwelling slaves in New York 5? for the best cluster house ever built. It is a developmental inferno...
...classic book on the subject, The Dancing Bees, Von Frisch went on to publish Man and the Living World (1936), an ethological survey of the life sciences. It ranges from behaviorist speculations on the cause of man's relatively weak sense of smell (since man stands upright, his nose is too far from the ground to follow spoors any more) to the fact that calluses on the feet are inherited...
...Said the Atlanta Journal: "It was as if Santa Claus had been revealed as a dirty old man." Detroit News Columnist Pete Waldmeir declared that "Spiro Agnew owes us all an apology. He took our trust and ground it into the dirt. He treated us like fools, thumbed his nose at duty, honor, country...
Crimson 'keeper Pete Dugerian smashed in the nose by a ball, was replaced by Hal Weeks, who came off the bench ice cold. Babson maneuvered superbly and sloshed through to the goal after a drop called on Weeks...
When she tried to find a modeling agency to handle her, they all turned her down. Finally, in 1966, she found one taker, the Ford Agency, which happened to be the best in town. "Eileen Ford said she'd hire me if I got my teeth and nose fixed. I said I would when I had the money, but I figured it might take me a while to get around to it-if ever." That time never came. That gapless smile in ads is not a sign of capitulation. It is a result of a tiny false tooth Hutton...