Word: horned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Died. Billie Goodson Pierce, 67, percussive, nimble-fingered jazz pianist and blues singer who once served briefly as Bessie Smith's accompanist and blossomed in the 1960s as co-leader, with her blind, horn-playing husband DeDe Pierce, of the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, elderly but exuberant purveyors of classic New Orleans sound; of kidney and liver disease; in New Orleans...
...Crimson was the defending titleholder of the Wood trophy and Harvard coach Mike Horn said last night he had thought the team had been strong enough to retain its title, even though their best sailor, Terry Neff, was on leave...
...crowd grew, and the wait on the dock seemed endless. But after an hour and a half, the parade of spectators and Coast Guard craft shooting 50-foot geysers of water into the air, came into sight at the mouth of the harbor. Every horn and cannon in the harbor went off in a deafening display of jubilation as the Courageous was towed to its berth with the whole crew guzzling champagne on the decks--except one hand hanging precariously from the spreaders by his knees...
...shifty winds" and lack of preparation spoiled the reigning national champions' opener, coach Mike Horn said...
...details of just one air drop, seen like a close-up of a Flemish tapestry: A paratrooper lands on a partridge and carries the dead bird with him: half talisman, half future meal. A British colonel calls his men to him with a copper hunting horn. Bagpipes play Blue Bonnets. The inmates of a bombed mental institution, clad in white robes, float through the surrounding woods like ghosts...