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Word: horning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spinning just to make it a little more complicated, and to and behold, there is a single-wing to the left, with line likewise. In the meantime, the chances are 100 to 1 that one of the defensive linemen has crossed the line of scrimmage and then comes the horn and five yards. It never misses, although people swear up and down that it's not intended to draw offsides. Just happens to work out that...

Author: By Robert S. Landau, | Title: Passing the Buck | 10/8/1943 | See Source »

Dickerson, up from New York's Downtown Cafe Society, blew some magnificent, dirty trombone and was the hit of the affair with his horn and vocal and Black and Blue. Newton and Morgan shared the vocals on a blues that also highlighted the session, and Arthur Karle (ex-Goodman tenor saxophonist) knocked out the crowd with several fine choruses. The musicians form something of a mutual admiration society and it certainly showed in the wonderfully cohesive ensembles they improvised on most numbers...

Author: By S/sgt. GEORGE M. avakian, | Title: JAZZ, ETC. | 10/5/1943 | See Source »

With the capture of Finschhaven, MacArthurs's forces will be separated by only 70 miles of water from horn-shaped New Britain, which points at New Guinea. Liberators in one raid last week pounded the horn's point with 94 tons of bombs-a heavy raid for that theater. Kenney's fighters flew 250 miles from their base to strafe enemy shipping and installations in , the horn's curve. At the horn's far end stands Rabaul, the enemy's key position in the area and the logical climax of the General...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC: The General's Little Blitz | 10/4/1943 | See Source »

...smoker also disclosed the presence in our midst of another talented double-talker in the person of Sidney Resnik, who served beautifully as a stooge for the fog-horn-voiced Benjamin. The dialogue between A.A. (Rita) Addington and O.K. (Olivia) Bovard brought down the house and Lt. (jg) T.W. (Bide Crab) Bradley with it. That last remark involving the distribution of naval responsibility and its various ramifications was unanimously elected as the climax crack of the evening...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE HARVARD SCUTTLEBUTT | 9/14/1943 | See Source »

...Argentines are a proud and freedom-loving people who like to boast about their disregard of laws and restrictions and how they run their lives to suit themselves. But they are also great admirers of efficient government. Last week they wondered which horn of this dilemma they preferred...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Efficient Argentines | 9/13/1943 | See Source »

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