Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...clot of listeners would form around Underwood as he talked, and every once in a while someone would offer encouragement in a most exuberant dialect. "At dogud tree!" What the man said was, "That dog could tree," meaning Troop had an unerring nose for raccoons...
...DEFENSIVE LINE: No starters return from last year's team, and that could mean big problems for Harvard against a very big UMass offensive line. There's some talent among the new faces, but little depth. UMASS DEFENSIVE LINE: The leader of this group that resembles a wall is nose guard Mike Dwyer. The senior leads an experienced 3-4 unit that has plenty of depth, plenty of size and plenty of speed. LINEBACKERS: The defense's strong point. Captain Brent Wilkinson leads this group, with returnees Scott Collins and Larry Bean providing strong support. UMASS LINEBACKERS: Freshman inside linebacker...
Secretary of the Treasury James Baker carries with him a few quotes collected over the years from some of the experts. One is from 1982 by New York Financier Felix Rohatyn: "Huge deficits will push interest rates higher until the economy really goes into a nose-dive." Interest rates did not go up, and the economy has not gone down. But even Reagan loyalists like Baker know that it is getting harder to conjure up the swans with all the ugly-duckling economic facts that now crowd the water...
...recorded medical history." Chimed in State Assemblyman Frederick Schmidt: "There is no medical authority who can say with authority that AIDS cannot be transmitted in school. What about somebody sneezing in the classroom? What about the water fountain? What about kids who get in a fight with a bloody nose? They don't know!" The crowd screamed and stomped. Cried Schmidt: "We should not experiment with our children...
...star admitted that he had played under the influence of coke as a Cardinal and had not been able to break the habit until just before he was traded to New York in mid-June of 1983. When he lost ten pounds and awoke one morning with his nose bleeding, he knew he was in trouble. "I had the shakes and I wound up throwing a gram down the toilet," he testified. But what finally turned him off, Hernandez said, was when he saw St. Louis Outfielder Lonnie Smith, who now plays for the Kansas City Royals, have such...