Word: horning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...victorious driver saw it all. He turned back, headed for the Oldsmobile and hit it a great side-swiping blow. The Olds caromed off the curbing. Two tires flew into the air. Proud as a victorious fighter pilot, the little man tooted his horn and drove away...
...Ramadier, usually a mild and vacillating man, faced the Communists like an enraged billy goat, his grey hair rising in two horn-like spikes. Cried he: "I will fight this through to a finish...
...Conant have been on speaking terms with the proprietor of the shine parlor-newsstand strategically set on Massachusetts Avenue opposite Widener's back door. Felix Caragianes is not the commonplace sort of man you would expect to find commanding a battery of bootblacks: in the wide grin behind his horn-rimmed spectacles there is a contagious adolescent exuberance which has put the purchase of a morning paper on a personal basis for a generation of the Harvard community...
Togliatti is no sawdust Caesar. His manner is easy. His face has a studious look behind horn-rimmed glasses, with only a faint ironic hint of the trouble he has seen or is causing. Like France's Maurice Thorez, he is one of the few Communists with a smile-a smile that is somewhat sarcastic around the edges...
...combat. When his troopship docked in Scotland, he stood in the bow with his golden cornet and played The Blue Bells of Scotland, sweet and lovingly. Then he broke into half a dozen low-driving hot choruses. One witness said: "They like to never got that ship docked. That horn held up the war." Jimmy kept Bix's golden horn in his pack when he landed in Normandy. One night, at a U.S.O. show, he met a girl named Marion Page, billed as "England's Queen of the Swing Piano." He got himself put on detached service...