Word: snoot
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...portside came a T-38 supersonic trainer with Colonel Joseph F. Cotton, the chief B70 Air Force test pilot who had saved Valkyrie 2 with the paper clip, riding as observer and officer in charge of the formation. Behind the T-38 hunched a droop-snoot Phantom, the delight of Navy and Air Force pilots in Viet...
Washington's generosity on the one hand and its many strictures on the other have driven some states to near schizophrenia: holding one hand outstretched to collect the federal loot and the other clenched to punch the federal snoot. The fact is that the Federal Government needs to do many things that the states cannot-or will not-do by themselves and that the states and localities badly need the money that comes from Washington. Since 1946, state and local spending has soared sixfold, to nearly $100 billion a year-twice what Washington spends on domestic affairs...
...masters would be complete without a pie fight. This one is the Ben-Hur of pie fights-it splatters more than 2,000 real cream pies of assorted flavors, and took five days to shoot. The scene even has a plot: Will Tony Curtis get one in the snoot or won't he? Or would it be a waste of perfectly good pie? It would be a shame to divulge the answer. This is about the most interesting development in the movie's last hour...
Actor Cyril Ritchard calls her "Acidy Cassidy." Director Tyrone Guthrie finds her "vicious and irresponsible." Contralto Marie Powers once threatened to clout her in the snoot, and had to be restrained from doing so. The object of these strong sentiments is the Chicago Tribune's deceptively frail Claudia Cassidy, whose barbed pen has made her the most widely read and feared critic of the lively arts in the Midwest. She has written finish to many a career in Chicago, notably those of two local conductors who left after continual Cassidy pannings...
...been talking happily about him, singing his praises, debating about their favorite pieces, planning branches of The New Tom Wolfe Fan Club." Well, people have been talking unhappily about him, too, lampooning his literary mannerisms and planning branches of the Let's Punch Tom Wolfe in His Southern Snoot Club. But even readers who dis like Wolfe's flamboyant, exaggerated style and who feel that he has less than a firm regard for facts agree that there are few other writers today who have so mordant a sense of the ridiculous or such deadly sharpshooting...