The fatigue has been complicated by the fact that Obama has been battling a nasty cold, telling aides he feels like he's got an "acorn up my nose" -- an interesting turn of phrase I had never heard before but seems to mean the president is stuffed up.

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My puppy tucked her nose under my arm and the hundred clever dog names I had dreamed up over a lifetime vanished.

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In my case, after a long delayed check up, I came nose to scale with a very real large number.

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When I sit out in the pasture, Lulu is usually the first to drift up behind me and rest her chin on the top of my head, waiting for her nose to be scratched.

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It's just too much pressure on me when people put samples of alcohol under my nose and ask whether I'm detecting the same flavor notes that their exquisitely educated palates are picking up, as Mr. Moreland was now.

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