Word: horning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Church's richest province and the Vatican has become increasingly dependent on it for financial support. Now that South America, with its 61,000,000 Catholics, is working in antitotalitarian harness with the U. S., the Vatican may soon be put on the horns of a dilemma. One horn is tacit participation in the spoils of Fascist victory-which patriotic Italian bishops (who, like Cardinal Kinsley, do not necessarily represent the Vatican's views) have steadily urged since June. They want the Vatican to take suzerainty over the Holy Land, should Italy seize it. The other horn would...
...Fleet in the Pacific; by destroying the Canal he might also cut off naval elements in the Atlantic from the Navy's great base on the Pacific side of the Canal at Balboa. And while the Pacific Fleet was exhausting fuel and losing time going around the Horn-a 48-day run-he could make sea and air raids on the continental U. S., might possibly even grab Bermuda, only 700 miles from New York and Philadelphia...
...Indianapolis, U. S. Champion Bobby Riggs defeated California's up-&-coming Welby Van Horn, 6-3, 6-1, 6-2, in the final of the 53rd annual Western tennis tournament...
Young Man With a Horn, by Dorothy Baker (TIME, June 6, 1938), was inspired by the life & work of the immeasurably talented Bix Beiderbecke. Readers raved over the novel; jazz musicians held it in thorough contempt.* Piano in the Band is like a roomful of rank amateurs through whose affectionate bloobs and bleatings may be heard, if faintly and scratchily, the record they are trying to duplicate: Tin Roof Blues. Whether readers can rave over it is doubtful. What musicians will think of the novel - since they are kind to the nonpretentious - is uncertain. But faulty...
...yards, coxswains were busy bailing. Presently the Washington boatload began slowly to sink like the orchestra in Radio City's Music Hall. Official launches scurried to the rescue, scurried on to rescue Syracuse, Columbia, California. Cornell and Navy managed to stay afloat for nearly a mile. Frantic horn-tooting and whistle-blowing finally notified them that the race had been called...