Word: horned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From the moment he arrived in the U.S. from New Malden, Surrey two years ago, a 42-year-old Briton named William George Philpot began wondering what he could do about an American trait that bothered him. At every traffic light someone behind him honked a horn. Five weeks ago in Detroit, Philpot ordered a metal sign. He bolted it to the rear of his car and set forth. The honking stopped. Last week, as a final test, he drove through clangorous Manhattan. Even there, the sign worked. Philpot sighed with relief, and set out in his self-made zone...
...Wall Street Bull picture [TIME, Sept. 24] is unfair, misleading. It indicates that the bull is fearsome, dangerous. Not so. A bull is dangerous or not, according to his horns. Without fighting horns, he is not a fighter . . . The bull shown in your picture has a badly bent horn. He can't fight. Have no fear of him. He couldn't scare a Jersey heifer...
...this that Jews call the ten days the Yamin Noraim-the Days of Fear. But when the trumpet call of the ram's-horn shofar has split the air for the last time on Yom Kippur, the mood traditionally changes to one of joy and hope. The New Year has indeed begun...
...Smith was an unassuming man with horn-rimmed glasses and a shifty voice. When asked if Curley was moving out of the building, he took us down a back corridor, opening door after door, and saying, "Look, look in there, there are eighteen rooms and they're all empty. The only reason we're here is to take care of Mr. Curley's mail, see? But look at these rooms, empty, all empty...
Died. Jacob Homer, 96, last survivor of General George A. Custer's historic 7th Regiment, which was massacred at the battle of Little Big Horn in 1876; of pneumonia; in Bismarck, N. Dak. A New Yorker who jo:ned the Army to see the West, he survived the battle because he was not there-there weren't enough horses to go around, and he had to stay behind when Custer made his last stand...