Word: nosing
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...evening, Lyle lit a fine cigar. In his new life, he said, talking to his guests was the part he liked best. He raised his snifter, and when he drank, the snifter pushed his half-spectacles from the tip of his nose to the bridge. When he removed the snifter, the eyeglasses slid back, like a beginning skier on a beginners slope...
...they consisted of those like my father, a neighborhood doctor, to whom the kids brought underfed cats and crippled birds, and shy Mr. Platt who led us around on Halloween, and blind Mr. Chevigny who wrote of his seeing-eye dog in a bestseller, My Eyes Have a Cold Nose, and Mr. Homer, who had a booming Bostonian voice with which he asked every child over the age of six: "When do you plan to enroll at Harvard?" On the floor above ours in No. 36 lived three spinster ladies, Miss Prescott, Miss Cutler and Miss Jourdan, who would hire...
...already been lengthened by 24 hours to give ground scientists more experiment time. This was made possible by the shuttle's unexpectedly low use of its "consumables" (oxygen, fuel, electric power). But when Columbia, in preparation for its descent, fired the small maneuvering rockets, or thrusters, hi its nose, the jolt rocked the ship. The usually laconic Young said that it sounded like a "howitzer blast going off in your backyard...
...final electronic indignity came at the end of Young's textbook landing. As the orbiter's nose thudded to rest on its front landing gear, the No. 2 computer shut down again. The following day NASA announced it would not sanction the next shuttle flight, scheduled for Jan. 30, until the computer difficulties are resolved...
...launched into orbit, maneuvered to an enemy satellite and detonated. The U.S. ASAT missile, scheduled to be deployed in 1987, is considerably more sophisticated. The 18-ft.-long missile is carried 18 miles aloft by an F-15 fighter and fired directly toward a satellite; its foot-long nose cone, after homing in by means of eight miniature infrared sensors, does not explode but, propelled by dozens of tiny rocket thrusters, crashes into the enemy satellite at 30,000 m.p.h. "With the F-15 strap-on," says a Pentagon official, "we could clean up the sky in 24 hours...