Word: horned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time to invite the Politburo to govern us. Korea is neither Truman's war nor Stalin's war; it is another battle in the continuing struggle for the survival of Christian civilization, like Tours, Lepanto, Guadalcanal, and some lesser engagements like the one at the Little Big Horn. Brass-rail strategists would do well to acquaint themselves with the facts and lessons of history. Imperial Rome withered and decayed and was sacked by her mercenaries...
...right leg and foot. So the bottom of the rocking bed has a button switch that he presses with his toe to stop the motion, e.g., when the kids are playing in the room and a ball rolls underneath, and restart it. There is also a bulb-type air horn which squawks like a duck when he presses it to summon attention...
...close-cropped head and broad shoulders into the arts. As the son of the board chairman of Boston's Filene's department store, he could afford to lose money on his ventures, and often did. Among them the expensive, respected but short-lived highbrow magazine Hound & Horn, Harvard's Society for Contemporary Art a novel, a book of poems, a scholarly book on the dance...
...Bienvenida described the fix, the handlers cut away a few inches of horn, then disguise their work by filing and painting the mutilated tips and by shaving away hair at the base to make the horn look longer. This operation, said Bienvenida, explains much of the daring of big-name Spanish matadors in recent years...
...they go to South America." Before the week was out, Matador Bienvenida could point to two examples of just how tough Latin American bullfighting can be. One example was provided by one of Mexico's top matadors, Jorge Aguilar, who was carried to the hospital with a deep horn wound in his right...