Word: horned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pain signal from the stubbing of the toe travels as an electrochemical impulse along the length of the nerve to the dorsal horn of the spinal cord, a region that runs the length of the spine and receives signals from all over the body. In a tall person, the distance from toe to dorsal horn may be more than one meter, and it can take about two seconds for the message to arrive. From there, it is relayed in a bewildering flurry of chemical messages to the brain, first to the thalamus, where sensations like heat, cold, pain and touch...
Benyukh, pleased, said it would be only right if the band followed up with The Star-Spangled Banner. Without sheet music, with a gulp or two, and with a roll of the timpani, the young scholars commenced, the cheeks on the horn players collapsing and filling like hearts. With the exception of two trumpets that fell shy of the highest notes, they acquitted themselves all right...
...EVER HEAR the story about how Louis Armstrong got discovered in Chicago?" jazz trumpeter Lester Bowie asks with a knowing wink. "King Oliver heard Louis as he passed by in the street. When I started playing trumpet I would practice with my horn pointed out the window in the hope that Louis might drive by." Lester smiled like and old pro as he works up for his punch line: "Louis never heard me, but the neighbors sure...
...next encounter--was with Edmund Wilson, who stopped me in the hall "Hello, hello," he said in his wonderfully high and thrilling voice that sounds like a coaching horn. "I read that book of yours ITI found the first page quite amusing, about the mouse, you know. But I was disappointed that you didn't develop the theme more in the manner of Katka...
After the final horn had sounded, after the MVP trophy was awarded, the six Harvard seniors gathered around the Bright Center goal for the final time...