Word: nosedness
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Into Colombo, Hongkong, Shanghai, the ship nosed her way. Port officials went aboard, came off marveling. By now only a small group of men were trying to maintain discipline. One worried boy moaned:
Among the foreign laborers who helped dig the Panama Canal was a hawk-nosed, angry-eyed Frenchman named Paul Gauguin. For about $4 a day he swung a pick ax, and earned enough money to go on to Martinique. Gauguin was beating a strategic retreat from the sun-spangled Seine...
It was very simple, said Andrei Gromyko: Moscow and Teheran had already settled their dispute and UNO need not bother to consider the case. The Netherlands' sharp-nosed, sharp-tongued Eelco van Kleffens pressed for the exact nature and terms of what Gromyko had referred to as "an agreement...
Groused long-nosed Columnist Lyons, who says that he borrows "from my witty wife" many of the gags he credits to others: "No one has the right to the fruit of our labor; no man, using only scissors and paste pot, should benefit from another's leg-ear-and...
Senator Kenneth McKellar, 77, happily availed himself of one of the cozier privileges of his pro-tern presidency of the Senate. The sulphurous, cob-nosed bachelor from Tennessee greeted visiting Gwin Barnwell, the South's "Cotton Maid," with a painstaking buss.