Word: horned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...situation had changed. The Saudis felt threatened by a sequence of ominous events: the overthrow of the Shah of Iran (who in 1977 had ordered AWACS planes that fortuitously were never delivered); the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan; Ethiopia's increasing emergence as a Soviet ally on the Horn of Africa; Marxist South Yemen's attempt to overthrow the traditionally westward-leaning regime in northern Yemen. The Saudis began pressing for precisely the fuel tanks and bomb racks (Sidewinder missiles were added later) that Brown had said they would not get. When war broke out between Iran and Iraq, both Americans...
...with half the Clash, and the production hand of Mick Jones has added the 'Clash sound' to Hunter's--laser gun synthesizers, up-front guitars with a wall of various whatevers always in the bacgrould. The results are mixed. Somethines Jones pulls up an average song, like the horn-sectioned ditty-turned-anthem "I Need Your Love" or the off-beat, off-key "Lisa Likes Rock and Roll". Other times, it causes weak songs to show up even worse, like the ostentatious "Leave Me Alone," which sounds like Donna Summer having lost her lyric sheet, or the let's-play...
Coach Mike Horn was ebullient about the turnaround made by the squad--last year they failed to win a single regatta, whereas this year they captured four out of five of the championship regattas they entered. "Without a question this is the best season the team has had in ten years," he states emphatically, adding, "This Radcliffe team is the finest team in all of New England right...
...Green woke up first, scoring 11 seconds before the halftime horn. Dartmouth forward Carol Trash took the ball on a short pass from the corner and slapped it past the outstretched leg of goalie Juliet Lamont for a 1-0 Green lead...
...bass: "I got a pah" of $600 lizard shoes and I got silk shirts. I'm the Man, boy. I changes my clothes 15 times a day. Learn to hustle girls, and you can wear dark shades and sharkskin suits and ride a big white Caddy." Riff the horn player sniffs in disgust. "You've got to have dignity, boy, you be nothing without dignity. The only way to beat the Man is be going to school. Go back to school...