Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...worst was still to come. When the disappointed astronauts moved Apollo back to the nose of Skylab to dock for a rest period, another glitch developed: Apollo's docking mechanism, which had worked the first time, suddenly balked. Several times Conrad bumped Apollo's nose into Skylab's docking adapter; each time, Apollo's docking mechanism failed to engage...
...hardly surprising when Post Columnist Nicholas von Hoffman, an old adversary, last week compared Ziegler to a Pinocchio whose nose grows longer with every public prevarication. But James Kilpatrick, a conservative commentator who was generally friendly to the Administration before Watergate, recently said: "I don't believe the White House is best served by Ziegler. The word 'inoperative' is going to follow him the rest of his life...
...because Cyrano wears his soul with panache, a plume of the lyric spirit. He has the brio of a Don Juan, yet he dares not woo the beautiful and shallow Roxane for fear that his monstrous nose will render him ridiculously ugly in her eyes. And so he puts his words of eloquence, passion and longing at the service of the handsome and inarticulate dolt Christian, whom Roxane fancies. Cyrano also possesses some of the romantic chivalry of Don Quixote. He tilts at the crass, compromising windbags of this world. He has an in nate gallantry that makes his last...
...organized his first band, the Earwigs. "It wasn't a band, it was a joke," says his older sister Nickie. He also wrote sports and feature stories for the school paper under the ironic pseudonym Muscles McNasal - Muscles because he was so skinny, McNasal because of a misshapen nose. It seems that Vince bravely concluded a marathon run, then went home and fainted, nose first...
...commentator said, Hunt Hall is "a thumb in the eye" of the Yard, then Memorial Hall must be the wart on its nose...