Word: snootful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Elizabeth II will be in Canada for 44 days, will make a one-day jaunt south of the border to Chicago, whose Mayor "Big Bill" Thompson in the 1920s threatened to punch the Queen's grandfather, George V, "in the snoot." At the trip's high point this week, President Eisenhower joins the Queen aboard Britannia to dedicate the 182-mile St. Lawrence Seaway, which links the U.S.-Canadian Great Lakes with the world's deep water...
...with wing-shaped gyrofins, which cut down roll from 7½° to a barely perceptible .4°. Among the ship's other refinements: a giant, airfoil-shaped sonar dome beneath the keel that will measure ship's speed (and which has already earned the nickname "droop snoot...
...violet eyes in swains. Her "little shock of incredulity" on seeing him for the first time yields to ever greater shocks as Ashe clanks through her admiring herd, disconcerting the urbane and unhorsing the sophisticated by sheer force of his awkward ardor. He pokes an oil princeling in the snoot, almost drowns the handsome son of the grand vizier. In a final melodramatic bid for Shala's heart. he parachutes into the Sahara Desert to engage a rival in mortal combat. Caught up in his exuberant campaign, he scarcely notices that his love has run off to another...
...between its teeth. Not since the '30s has it consumed so much bad champagne and dubious caviar, trampled so much broken glass underfoot, and driven so many village dressmakers to profitable distraction. Society is scrambling shakily to its feet again and cocking a tentative snoot at the masses...
Communists Move In. When news of the shootings reached India, riots broke out and effigies of Salazar were hanged and burned. At this point, soul force was all but forgotten. Communists were in the forefront of the agitating, eager to cock a snoot at NATO partner Portugal. In Bombay, police fired on the rioters, wounding 85. The mob retaliated with stone-throwing, injuring 100, surged into the British High Commission building, smashed windows, manhandled the staff and demanded lowering of the Union Jack. Pakistan's office was also attacked, while 10,000 smashed up the Portuguese consulate and hoisted...