Word: horned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While most Vikings wielded clubs and beer bottles, a few of the more aesthetically inclined led songs with accordion, violins and horn music...
...Boston College goalies must have thought they were trying out for the role of Custer in "The Little Big Horn." Throughout all but five minutes of the 80 minute context on Saturday the Women's soccer team peppered them with shots from all sides. When the smoke had cleared the statistics told the story: Radcliffe, 52 shots and five goals, B.C. one shot, no goals...
What's this? Blasphemy, you say? No way. I'm as loyal to the Sox as the Jews for Jesus guy that walks up and down Jersey Street with a bull horn and a flag of Israel before all the home games. We just can't go on kidding ourselves like this. It's time for some honest criticism...
...resolved to retain the territory they acquired during a century of expansion. The Eritreans, whose land was an Italian colony until 1941, are fighting for independence; the Somalis are pursuing their dream of uniting the various Somali homelands under one flag. But these conflicts also have international significance. The Horn of Africa, lying beside the Red Sea, the Gulf of Aden and the oil routes between the Persian Gulf and Europe, is of enormous strategic importance to the superpowers...
Similar shifts in alignments are taking place to the north, west and east of the Horn. Egypt has thrown off its Soviet influence. So has the Sudan, which is currently aiding the Eritrean secessionists in Ethiopia even though its Soviet-furnished army and air force are short of equipment; the Sudanese suffered considerable losses while putting down an attempted coup last year that allegedly was backed by Libya, the most steadfast of the remaining Soviet clients in the region. Libya, of course, has just finished fighting a weekend war with Egypt, which abrogated its friendship treaty with Moscow only last...