Word: nose
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time better than more reasoned and intellectual analyses. Consequently I have been impressed from the first by that general nobility of character and godlike quality that shines from Mr. Garner's countenance. The eyes are large, candid and idealistic; the mouth generous and honest to a fault; the nose shows strength and yet fair-mindedness; the brow is high and intellectual; the chin full of courage and loyalty to his leaders. All in all, this face of Mr. Garner's symbolizes all the nobility of the American eagle, that gentle unpredatory bird. I think it is most fitting...
...wise pouches under Mr. Taylor's sad, deepset, clear-green eyes are there by no accident; his stubborn, pugnacious nose, his mailbox-slit mouth, his underslung jaw are all testimonials of the strength and judicial balance of his mind. And good, dead Cardinal William Mundelein of Chicago would be happy to know that the idea he planted with Franklin Roosevelt in 1936-a restoration of relations with the Vatican since it is now a temporal State, not just a religion-has flourished thus solidly in the person of Tycoon Taylor...
...tell him when he was close to the unpredictable earth. Harold Neely's luck equaled his pluck. The bomber missed all the gullies, fences, poles, wires, barns, houses, livestock and civilians in that part of Kansas, glided into an open field. Damage : two bent propellers, a crumpled nose. Unhurt, Pilot Neely discovered that Lieut. John O. Neal and Private Henry Zielinski had parachuted safely down, three miles away. Unseen by Harold Neely, the fourth man in the ship jumped, fumbled with mittened hands at the rip cord of his chute, pulled it too late. On a barbed wire fence...
...tons bigger than the biggest now in the U. S. fleet, 23,900 tons bigger than Great Britain's Hood (biggest afloat), and would be too bulky to get through the Panama Canal. Said Sub-Committeeman Charles Albert Plumley of Northfield, Vt., thumbing his Yankee nose at the British: "I'm sick and tired of just match, match. This matching game is absurd. I want a winning team...