Word: nosing
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...cultural politics of the cold war world, her elegance also made an irrefutable argument for the U.S. (One look at Nikita Khrushchev's wife Nina and you understood why the Russians have a word like babushka.) Thin as an icicle, as up-to-the-minute as a nose cone, wherever Jackie was, there was the New Frontier...
...married to Pamela Anderson b) drop their nose ring in your smoothie c) be infected with hepatitis C d) realize too late that they won't love Susie 4-Ever...
...Which sort of makes you want to root for Keith - whose only victory came in the weight-loss challenge - to somehow stagger across that great finish line in the sand, just so he can blow his nose one last time . . . and give everybody the finger...
...father shaved with focused nonchalance, pausing now and then to study his work and take a drag from the unfiltered Camel parked on the edge of the sink. Now and then he brought his left hand into play, to hold his nose aside (face abruptly grotesque) while he worked the bristles on the high upper...
...once sick the entire year. Somehow as a sophomore I dodged every sneeze-induced shotgun blast of tainted phlegm from every runny nose in every lecture hall. I was invincible. At the end of this glorious, deep-breathing year, being once again of sound mind and body, I half-heartedly tried to convince myself that these non-scientifically sanctioned herbs and spices were not responsible for my well-being. Echinacea’s correlation with inexplicable health by no means implied causation, right? Thus, when the big bottle of meanies ran out, I neglected to replace it?...