Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nevada's 60 lawmakers have put themselves under the needles of one Lok Yee-kung. There have been several claimed cures and even more conversions. Assemblyman Robert Hal Smith reported that his 20-year sinus condition disappeared after needles were stuck in his forehead and alongside his nose. Equally as gratifying to his wife, the treatment silenced his snoring. Another legislator said that he had been cured of the pain of a childhood knee injury, and a third claimed to have been relieved−though only temporarily−of a number of leg ailments. Scores of constituents begged their...
...face is thinner than that of the order's founder, but his high, broad forehead and strong nose bear the same Basque imprint. It is an open face, quick to smile. "He is optimistic by disease," says one colleague. But the Very Rev. Pedro Arrupe has reason to be optimistic. He is a survivor of a cataclysm next to which the problems of his Jesuits must instantly pale. As rector of a Jesuit novitiate in wartime Japan, he was in Nagatsuka, a suburb of Hiroshima, on Aug. 6, 1945, when the atomic bomb struck. "Arrupe," says a Jesuit associate...
...some it becomes active, usually during a cold or fever, after a sunburn or as a result of nervous tension. The result is usually cold sores or fever blisters, unpleasant but rarely harmful eruptions that often recur at the same place on the lips or below the nose...
CYRANO. After weeks of brave resistance to The Crimson's devastating pan, the old boy is about to sheathe his sword, bench his nose and flee to the wilds of New York. Closing, that is, after Saturday's performance, 7:30 at the Colonial...
...frequent side effect of heavy use is bleeding from the nose, a result of injury to nasal membranes. Snow can also cause hyperactivity and damage to the nervous system. Many long-term users have suffered psychotic symptoms, such as imagining insects crawling under their skin. Still, snorting cocaine is not as bad as injecting it into a vein; a mainlined overdose can literally freeze respiration and stop the heart-permanently. Considering these hazards, the king of drugs, as cocaine is often called, is something of a tyrant...