Word: horning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington conference was generaled by U.S. Treasury Secretary John Wesley Snyder, a rather unimaginative banker, and by Sir Wilfrid Eady, whose thin face, horn-rimmed spectacles and realistic command of facts make him the embodiment of the British civil servant. The details of the talk between them and their experts the world did not hear. But it heard much of the $3,75° million loan to Britain, and of "discrimination" and of "convertibility" (see INTERNATIONAL) . The conferees could bring about no full solution of the crisis; that was for the U.S. Congress and for Parliament, if a solution could...
...heat in & around Hollywood was intense. At a recording session the slip-horn's balding Tommy Dorsey, 41, knocked the clarinet's balding Benny Goodman, 38, through the music stands. When Goodman arrived late on the job and tootled tootles that weren't in the script, Dorsey got his dander up. The standard Hollywood windmilling followed -and then the standard flubdub to the press. Goodman: "I was just sitting there playing my clarinet when I got hit." Dorsey: "I couldn't punch my way out of a paper...
Dashing, golden-haired George Armstrong Custer, a major general at 24, was a wild daredevil of a soldier and the greatest Indian fighter of his time-according to the history books. Schoolboys are told that the battle to the last man at the Little Big Horn on June 25, 1876 was one of the most heroic chapters in U.S. history...
Custer's chance came in the fatal expedition of 1876. Commanding a regiment in one of three columns advancing against an encampment of thousands of Sioux Indians at the Little Big Horn, he was assigned to a scouting expedition. Instead of joining the other columns before attacking, as ordered, Custer decided to redeem himself and win undying glory by putting the Indian horde to rout alone and unaided. Custer's attack, Dr. Hawley implies, was one of the worst-botched jobs in the annals of Indian warfare. The General split his small force...
...stood 75 hours without sleep. As a precaution against collision, the Mary has two radar installations. Captain Illingworth welcomes them, but he does not deputize even to radar his task of watching the sea. "In the North Atlantic trade we have a saying: 'We blow the fog horn for five hot-weather months and blow on our fingers to keep warm the other seven.' When fogs abound, any captain of a ship like this who doesn't watch the sea himself is a fool, sir, a fool...