Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from as many as 151 nations converged on Washington last week for a meeting of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, they had plenty to talk -- and fret -- about. The U.S. and Japan seemed perilously close to a trade war. The value of the American dollar was nose-diving to new lows against the yen. And the Latin- American debt crisis was flaring up all over again. In short, the world economy was showing distinct signs of stress...
...know I really liked Flynn. He seemed like a smart guy, like us. But, he's becoming just a typical politician, stickin' his nose in where it don't belong, trying to get some attention...
...idol) is the only large marble carving that Henri Gaudier- Brzeska was able to complete before his death in an infantry charge, at the age of 23, in 1915. This is the Hieratic Head of Ezra Pound, 1914, and hieratic it is; the face, with its wedge of a nose, embrasure-like eyes and triangular goatee, is as powerful as a royal Assyrian portrait, possessed of an awful gravity that the outrageous phallic pun of the poet's hair fails to reduce...
Also on Air Force One was Joy Underdown, a third-grade teacher from Columbia, who in the early 1960s taught young Ron Reagan, the President's son, when he was a preschooler in Los Angeles. Miss Joy, as the family called her, had been visiting Washington when the long nose of the White House sniffed her out and tempted her to take the power trip. She loved...
...been a pupil of Cellist Emanuel Feuermann in Germany. Saito was aware his students lacked cultural grounding. "He said that if you know the music and have no tradition, then you must go to Europe," remembers Ozawa. "If you have talent, you should have a very good nose to smell which is good tradition and which...