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Word: horned (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...musicians love the Boettcher. The orchestra is understaffed (83 members, compared with Boston's 105), and they play ploddingly. But as French Horn Player John Zirbel notes, "we will improve almost at once because for the first time we can hear ourselves play. That means better attack and intonation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Rocky Mountain High | 3/20/1978 | See Source »

...likely that the Horn of Africa will remain among the several problem areas Washington has on that continent. And, as the President well knew, Barre's battalions were not conducting an orderly withdrawal; they were being badly beaten. Several thousand Somali soldiers are estimated to have died last week around the strategic Ogaden town of Jijiga...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFRICA: The Somalis Go | 3/20/1978 | See Source »

...down in the middle of the tracks with a huge bong, and proceeded to get blown away. Jim, who does not smoke pot, stayed outside in the parking lot, looking at the stars, when from far down the valley he heard the forlorn 'woooooo' of a diesel train horn. He walked across the bridge to the mouth of the tunnel and said, "Ah, you guys, you better get out of the tunnel. There's a train coming." "Oh come on, Bredar," they shouted back, "stop being so paranoid...

Author: By Harry W. Printz, | Title: Tonto and the Ranger Hit the Jackpot at 10,000 Feet, or, Diamond Jim Cleans Out the Moffat Tunnel | 3/11/1978 | See Source »

...this task that the Carter administration should turn its attention. The creation and passage of legislation in this vein needs the kind of weight behind it that Carter brought to bear for reform of job-bias agencies. Success in that effort might justify the Carter administration's horn-tooting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Carter and Civil Rights | 3/10/1978 | See Source »

...speaking of the name Diz, Dizzy Gillespie, the one and only man of the bent trumpet is in town at Kix Live, tonight through Saturday night. Brother Blue says that Gillespie's horn is bent up toward the sky because he plays for Louis Armstrong in heaven. But, do not worry: earthly human beings are allowed to featured on drums. He is not Buddy Rich...

Author: By Scott A. Kripke, | Title: No Drowning in the Mainstream | 3/9/1978 | See Source »

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