Word: horning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...smiling, pink-cheeked, blue-eyed Westerner, with thinning grey hair and an easy, friendly manner, he specializes in the homely, forthright phrase, a booming laugh, and a bone-crushing handshake; wears well-tailored blue, grey or brown suits, flashy ties, rimless glasses or glasses with colorless horn rims. He has a standing order that his office door remain open to all callers. He is a joiner: the American Legion, the Elks, the Masons (33rd degree and past Grand Master of California), the Native Sons of the Golden West...
...power, first Commander in Chief of the U.S. fleet (1934-36) to wear wings (observer) and last to sport a beard (Vandyke); of a heart ailment; in Bethesda, Md. Reeves, a stanchion-stiff disciplinarian, earned his first commendation in the engine room of the Oregon on her round-the-Horn dash from San Francisco harbor to the Caribbean in '98, served with the Atlantic fleet in World War I, came out of retirement in World War II to serve as the Navy's Lend-Lease liaison officer and a member of President Roosevelt's five-man Pearl...
Just as real and grim as the shutdown was the dispute. John Lewis insisted that every miner over 60 with 20 years of service should be paid a pension of $100 a month. The operators' Ezra Van Horn insisted that to finance such a plan the present 10?-a-ton royalty on mined coal would have to be raised to 40?. The operators were not going to cough...
...seedbed for little magazines, the American soil is fertile but thinly spread. Of the hundreds that have sprouted since 1912, only a handful have put down roots. Some of the best (Hound & Horn, the Dial, etc.) have withered and died. Last week a cluster of new ones bravely poked their heads above ground...
...wind may never reach England, but the long, low swells, sweeping along at 70 miles an hour, much faster than ordinary ocean waves, do not stop until they hit a shoreline. Dr. Deacon has measured waves at Pendeen which came all the way from a storm off Cape Horn at the southern tip of South America...