Word: horned
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...When you meet an elephant on the road," says the helpful Uganda government in its hints to travelers, "do not blow your horn. This may annoy him." Merely stop some distance away and rev your engine, and he will step aside. If, on the other hand, the traveler has no engine to rev, there should be no disputing the right of way-the visitor would do well to rev his feet and get out in a hurry...
...long-suffering friends are even accustomed to having him turn up with his equipment to record their squalling, hiccuping children. Wild animals have been Prey's most difficult subjects ("The only possible way to get an alligator to cut loose is by tooting a B-flat French horn; they think the damn thing's a female"). But one of his most memorable triumphs occurred in the lion house of New York's Bronx Zoo. There one spring day he roared at a hungry and puzzled lion until the beast let out a howl "like something...
...Crimson sailors it was a weekend of "firsts." For the first time this year skippers Carter Ford and Mike Lehmann both finished high in their divisions. With five firsts and two seconds Ford and crew Pete Drake captured individual honors with 117 points in "A" division. Lehmann and Mike Horn sailed into second place in "B" division with 108 points...
...Japanese Pianist Toshiko Akiyoshi-in one of the year's most successful exercises for small combo. Akiyoshi has developed into a pianist of extraordinary fire and fluency, and Mariano displays-particularly in his remarkable reading of Deep River-a warm, lyric tone that flows like honey from the horn. Nothing in the album is better than Akiyoshi's own Long Yellow Road, a wistful musical memory of the long, straight roads back home in Manchuria...
...because of weather. Now the whole tedious preflight procedure had been repeated. Step by step the Redstone had been readied for launch. The capsule's innards had been checked and rechecked (Fellow Astronaut John Glenn had spent the previous two hours in a minute inspection) before a warning horn sent mournful blasts across the palmetto flats. The Redstone was ready...