Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ronald L. Nuttall '59 asserted that abolishing the Council would be "cutting off our nose to spite our face." He opposed a referendum on the grounds that "the Council would probably lose" because "the students are ignorant of the Council's functions...
...committee of eight top Administration civilian officials flashed the production green light for both the Air Force's Thor and its intermediate-range (1,500 mi.) Army rival Jupiter, temporarily resolving the two missiles' nose-and-nose race for survival. Both IRBMs have flown successfully three times, and both have flopped several times. Only last week a Jupiter rocketed away promisingly from its Cape Canaveral launching pad, was exploded a few minutes later-"because of technical difficulties," said the Army's inscrutable announcement. As Defense Secretary Neil McElroy admitted, neither Douglas Aircraft Co.'s Thor...
...someone remembered that she had sung a year and a half ago with an outfit called the Dream Weavers. While Paar clutched his wounds. Trish grabbed a recording contract with Decca. She might hit the big time, with the help of a cute nickname (short for Patricia), a fine nose for publicity and a sentimental, "There's-a-tree-in-the-meadow" kind of voice. Her first record, Far Away, a sugary lament for vagrant love, is sure to be mooned over by teen-agers on the outs with their steadies...
...quiet, serious competitor. He works hard at keeping in shape (a habit that makes him something of an exception among the rowdy Lions), and in five years of pro ball has shown a remarkable talent for holding onto his looks. "Ever since the Philadelphia Eagles broke my nose in 1953," says Joe modestly, "I've worn a face guard. Not that I've got any beauty to lose-but why be a hero...
Escape Velocity. When the Aerobee's nose exploded 55 miles up, the focused force of the shaped charges made three jets of aluminum pellets shoot into the near-vacuum like shot from three shotguns. The Air Force announcement is none too clear about what happened, but Maurice Dubin, physicist in charge of the project, thinks that some of the pellets reached the speed of 40,000 m.p.h. A photograph taken of the explosion showed meteorlike trails whose speed could be measured by a fast-moving shutter on the camera...