Word: nosedness
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Behind Racketeer Flegenheimer, who was murdered in a Newark saloon, Mr. Dewey soon nosed out a notorious underworld lawyer, Julius Richard ("Dixie") Davis. When relentless Tom Dewey announced that lurking behind Davis was the substantial figure of potent Tammany District Leader Jimmy Hines, whom he indicted as the policy racket...
For generations hardy Chinese fishermen have nosed their little junks into the treacherous South China Sea, headed for the small group of uninhabited coral atolls known as the Paracel Islands. On these reefs, located 300 miles south of the China coast and 250 miles east of French Indo-China (see...
On the Yellow River front, their drive on Hankow halted, Japanese armies still waited for the flood waters of "China's Sorrow" to subside. South on the Yangtze River, the main naval drive upstream on Hankow received a temporary setback at Matang, where the Chinese had blocked the stream...
At that point, Los Angeles County's big-nosed, big-talking, grandstanding District Attorney Buron Rogers Fitts-whom the Clinton reformers had long been attacking as fiercely as they had the mayor-unexpectedly jumped into action. He secured grand jury indictments charging beefy Captain Kynette and two aides with...
First to go out were Johnny Fischer and Ray Billows, defeated by Charley Yates and Johnny Goodman respectively on the second day. "Well, Johnny, it's better to be lucky than good," drawled Atlanta's Yates, the team's clown, after he had ousted Fischer by laying...