Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...often plays havoc with the English language. A lead story last week about efforts to clean up Times Square, also known as Broadway, carried this one-sentence socko para: "Specifically, Times Square's polyglot floating population, the porno pix and the massage parlors remain a hard-core hard-nose hurdle...
Given the location of the Grolier (not Grollier), approximately 100 feet from The Crimson's front door or, to use the vernacular, under its very nose, it seems unfortunate that The Crimson could not have (1) known how to spell the name; or (b) looked out the window; or (c) assured itself that its copy editors and proofreaders know their jobs...
Then the robbers moved on to Holyoke St., where they took a watch from Joseph P. McLafferty '75 at gunpoint, and robbed Leo W. Fraser, a Columbia University senior, of $25 and a watch. Fraser suffered knife wounds in the nose and cheek...
...filthy mood," Arikha recalls. "I climbed out of bed, yelling at my wife, yelling at the shaving mirror . . ." The bleary-eyed moment of evil temper is caught with acid precision in an image as transitory as the mood itself. The quick, scrubby notations for nose and cheek bone and wiry corncob hair compose themselves around the black hole of a mouth; it is calligraphy as snapshot...
...bases his case against the her pes viruses on studies conducted at the National Cancer Institute with Dr. Giulio Tarro of the University of Naples. The pair found "footprints" - antibodies produced by the body in response to the herpes viruses - in 56 patients with cancers of the lip, mouth, nose and throat, kidney, bladder, prostate, cervix and vulva. There was no trace of the antibodies in 81 patients with other malignancies, such as cancers of the lung, breast and lymphatic system, or in 51 patients without cancer...