Word: nosing
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...Nuclear Saints performed several experiments, one knitted a blue and maize "nose cone warmer" to protect missiles from the cold of winter. Another tried to create life from Frito's Corn Chips and refried beans...
...small screwdriver used to adjust gyroscopes, General Electric had charged the Navy $780 apiece. New price: $45. For a rubber nose pad on a torpedo, Aerojet-General had charged the Navy $381. New price: $7.50. For a two-foot fiberglass cover for the radarscope of an A-6 bomber, Grumman had charged the Navy $1,800. New price...
...middle man, tangling fatally with both the coke aristocracy of Bolivia and Tony, his proletarian successor. He has two things Tony wants: power and a bored blond mistress (Michelle Pfeiffer), with a Kew-pie-doll mouth soured into a who-cares sneer and the bad habit of powdering her nose from the inside. Tony also develops a paternal letch for his teen-age sister (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio). The combination of greed and blood lust is too much for this bad guy to handle; if one doesn't get him, the other will. And in the end, both...
Robison's quirky usage also enlivens the stories unexpectedly perfect words pop up like Kleenex in the midst of an unremarkable description. We become reacquainted with the "nose" of a pencil, and the "dish rinser" that one uses to "spritz" the dinner plates. We need these sparks of craft because many of these thirteen stories are so brief as to be almost like SAT exercises in creative writing (write a scene between two or three closely related characters, starting in the middle. Be sure to include subtle details to establish time, place, and motivation. Stop after you have finished work...
...latest House action disturbs many industry officials, including Archie McGill, a former IBM vice president, onetime head of AT&T Information Systems and now president of Rothschild Ventures. Says he: "It's a real tragedy that Congress is poking its nose in at this point. The game plan is in place. To shake it up for two bucks a month is just not rational...