Word: horning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been as nice a part-time job as a man could imagine. The hours were easy and the pay was fat-$35,000 a year. But after word of the luscious salaries got out, Ezra Van Horn and Senator Styles Bridges of New Hampshire found less enjoyment in their pay and duties as trustees of the United Mine Workers' Welfare and Retirement Fund (TIME...
With an air of pained surprise, northern and western soft-coal operators fired crusty, aging Ezra Van Horn, an executive of the Ohio Coal Association, from his six-year-old job as the operators' chief labor negotiator. They also tied a new demand to the contract they are negotiating with John L. Lewis. If Van Horn was not relieved of his trustee's job, they would not sign a new contract with the union...
After weeks of lurching about and tooting its horn in alarm, Harry Flood Byrd's sleek, well-oiled political machine rolled to victory last week in Virginia...
...Senators received the news with some astonishment-one of the recipients of this rich stipend was their senatorial colleague, New Hampshire Republican Styles Bridges (the other: Ezra Van Horn, representing the mine operators...
...along Britain's Kentish coast. The 80-foot, dragon-prowed Viking-style Hugin* was beached, and from it poured 53 warriors with knives between their teeth and spears in their hands. Several of the invaders wore horn-rimmed spectacles under their horned helmets; all had month-old beards. None of the 50,000 waiting Britons ran away...