Word: nosing
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...gauze-covered black jar containing either treated manure or the real thing straight from the pig. The odor is rated on a scale of one to ten, ten being malodorous enough to blow off your socks. No students are getting rich on the deal. Experts hold that the nose gets desensitized after too much exposure to such powerful smells. The daily limit: nine sniffs...
...Blow your nose with a penalty flag...
...bantering idiom of immigrant Jews. "A lot you know," is the lesson Irving learns from his mother's death. When he invests in some paintings by an unknown artist who becomes famous, the novelist observes: "No one ever went broke seeing what was right in front of his nose...
...course. Only two other cadets, one of them Robert E. Lee, had ever received higher grades at the Point. His contemporaries regarded him with awe, and pictures from the time show why. Lean and handsome, with a beaklike nose, he radiated confidence and authority. But peacetime Army life made MacArthur restless and insubordinate. "It's the orders you disobey that make you famous," he told one officer...
...themselves. And a few have been victimized by motorists and other malicious nonrunners. Yet nothing vindicates any image of runners as humanity's special victims -or the most exemplary form of human beings ever. At the rate they are going they may win, by more than a nose, the crown as smuggest...