Word: horned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unearthing a marble slab showing the menorah, the seven-armed candle-holder, a tree, and the shofar (the ram's horn used to announce the New Year), the American archaeologists became convinced that the large structure was the meeting place of the Jewish community of Sardis...
...corps de ballet dancers are getting only $50 a week in the U.S., plus rooms and one free meal a day at the Hotel Governor Clinton. They cannot afford to eat in the better restaurants, and they apparently prefer not to eat in people's restaurants, such as Horn & Hardart's. Most buy groceries and eat cold suppers in their hotel rooms after the evening performance...
...Goes to Jail." Gretel's joyous crew was singing Waltzing Matilda as they were towed back to port past the horn-tooting spectator fleet, and the song rang through Newport all night. Even the cops cheered. "Nobody with an Australian accent goes to jail tonight," announced a local policeman. Said a crew member, amid the debris of Gretel's headquarters pub: "This reminds me of an outback pub at shearing time." Back home, radio stations played a special Gretel Song. The Sydney Sun announced the victory: WILY STURROCK OUTFOXES AMERICANS. And for this one race, at least...
Everything for Junior. In real life there is no "Jonathan Logan." The name was invented by Founder and President David Schwartz, 60, a grey-haired, broad-browed, restless man with a voice like the horn on a Staten Island ferry. Born in Harlem to Russian immigrants, he broke into the rag business 47 years ago as a messenger, has become one of its wealthiest titans. He roams and roars through Jonathan Logan's head offices, darting into showrooms to glad-hand buyers, dashing into design rooms to tug at fabrics and study new lines. He is kindly but curt...
...distant sensations. By the time he was 35, the Herald was easily the best paper in the U.S., and no one was surprised when it scored a four-day beat by printing the complete news-denied by the War Department-of Custer's annihilation at Little Big Horn. It was part whim and part genius that prompted him to tell an obscure correspondent named Henry Morton Stanley to search Africa for the missing missionary, Dr. David Livingstone...