Word: snout
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...gentle tweak of a steel wheel not much bigger than a silver dollar points Cavalier's snout in a fresh direction with the ease of a Cadillac swinging into a country-club driveway. Wooden helms are fast becoming museum pieces, like so many vestiges of wind-sailing days. Crews no longer wash then-clothes in deck buckets, they toss them in washers and dryers. Gone are the iceboxes and worries about the food spoiling...
...With a pig's eyes that never look up, with a pig's snout that loves muck, with a pig's brain that knows only the sty, and a pig's squeal that cries only when he is hurt, he sometimes opens his pig's mouth, tusked and ugly, and lets out the voice of God, railing at the whitewash that covers the manure about his habitat...
...refuse to accept Armageddon, not because I refuse to look at the Bomb's drab snout, but because I have too much faith in humanity to believe that after all our evolution and history, our triumphs and failures, our knowledge and learning, some overreacting Zeus will make us vanish in one mighty poof of a fireball...
...third way taken simultaneously, one that addressed the mind that brought us to the place we are. It is time to see the bomb as a real weapon again, and not an amorphous threat or a political lever. It is time to look straight at its drab snout and recall quite clearly what it once did and still can do. A new book of drawings by Hiroshima's survivors is called Unforgettable Fire. It is time to remember the fire. Whatever considerable use the bomb once served as a diplomatic instrument is passing very quickly now, at a speed...
...parodied the books in the New York Times: " 'It's time t'awd bitch was up,' I said. I put my arm up her lug end to untwist her uterus ... 'If tha'll just wipe off the fly that's on my snout, Colonel,' I said...