Word: horned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...debated the bill, 10,000 Orthodox Jews from the Mea Shearim and from all over Israel converged on Shaarei Hessed Square in the biggest anti-government demonstration in Israel's troubled history. Red-eyed from weeping, they swayed and wailed, prayed, and blew upon the ram's horn, a signal of national distress. Despite their prayers, the conscription bill passed the first Knesset reading...
...Live a Little. Wilson, as Viertel introduces him, is an extreme type of the Hemingway generation. Liquor all day, women all night, and then off to Kenya to get straight with God by horn-wrestling a buffalo. In Wilson's case, it's off to the Congo to shoot a few elephants before making a movie in the middle of the jungle...
Third Generation. The man who performs those miracles protests that he is not at all perfect, but the fact is that he is a phenomenal musician who has been playing ever since three, when he razzed out his first toot on the horn. At twelve, he began to study seriously, kept at his work through World War II (Royal Air Force Band), and is now first horn with London's Philharmonia Orchestra...
...biggest impetus came from being born into a family of musicians. Grandfather A. E. Brain was a horn man; so were his three sons: Alfred, who played with the Los Angeles Philharmonic; Edward, who finally gave up and joined the London police force; and Aubrey,** England's best before the war, who played with the BBC Symphony. Aubrey's sons are Horn Player Dennis and Leonard, an oboist...
...Spitting Sound. Dennis, a pink, cherub-faced man, takes his music seriously. His lips are insured for ?10,000, and he avoids all sports except table tennis-a ping-pong ball could hardly damage him, he feels. As for his horn-playing technique, modest Dennis has a simple explanation...