Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Clemente. It was guided by its own internal computer, which was programmed with a detailed map of the route to the target area. The map included the shape of various landmasses and buildings along the way. At selected points once the Tomahawk reached land, the radar system in its nose compared the actual terrain with the internal map; then the computer would periodically correct the missile's course. This constant readjustment enabled it to zero in precisely on target...
...fashioned editorial journalism. We turn to the practitioners of this dying art when the political scientists, office-holders, and bureaucrats who run our society become myopic and need the aid of minds less mired in the supposed "possible." Hirschorn himself could assume this role, if he'd lift his nose from the rulebooks. Scott A. Rosenberg...
...astonishing 7 ft. 4 in. He is the only male swimmer since Mark Spitz to hold world records in two strokes at the same time, and the combination of his success and his unusual architecture has swimming experts muttering in awe. His close-set eyes and long, beaked nose give him an expression of alert irritability. He is said to be arrogant, but before his first race a private kindness showed a different side of his nature...
...heart attack," says Sheehan. More important, Fixx told his family that he felt a tightness in his throat while running. This, says Winslow, was probably angina, a telltale sign of coronary trouble. Though commonly described as a gripping pain in the chest, angina can occur anywhere from the nose to the navel. Usually it occurs in the same place and disappears when physical activity stops. "Tightness" and "heaviness," says Winslow, "are two of the most common descriptions of angina...
After a series of exasperating delays because of a slipped thermal shield and a computer blackout, the new space shuttle Discovery sat perched on its Florida launch pad last Tuesday morning, its nose poked impatiently toward the sky. In a chase plane high above Kennedy Space Center, Astronaut John Young took a last look at the weather and gave the final O.K. for takeoff. The shuttle's on-board computers began the final countdown. "We are go for main-engine ignition," NASA Commentator Mark Hess announced. The engine grumbled noisily, snorting smoke and fire... Six, five, four...