Word: horning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...outmanned and outtanked,swept out of the Negev, cracked the Egyptian main line of resistance at Um-Katef, and opened the route to the Suez Canal for Israeli armor. She has a sharp sense of color. At the village of Nahel: "The sandstorm receded, and silence took over. The horn of a burning vehicle was operating-a wan sound of alarm not to die for hours-like a soft reminder of what...
Michael S. Horn, coach of the Radcliffe sailing team, cited Miss Chalmers' extensive experience and the sudden appearance of Miss Fransson as an outstanding skipper as the major reasons for Radcliffe's success...
What makes it more impressive is that Schuller was a high school dropout, and is a completely self-taught composer ("I learned from the best teachers, the scores themselves"). The son of a New York Philharmonic violinist, he became a professional French horn player at 16, at 19 started a 14-year stint with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. All the while, he composed prolifically. even scribbling notes during rests at performances...
Nabors, who offstage is only slightly less gentle than Gomer, went to Los Angeles in 1958 not to feed his ambition but to foil his asthma. He worked as an apprentice film cutter, sang on amateur nights at a club called The Horn. TV's Andy Griffith dropped by one night, liked his country-bumpkin patter between songs and offered him a walk-on role in his series. Nabors says he was as nervous as a cat in a room full of rocking chairs, but Griffith assured him that "all I had to do was act like...
After two and a half years of sitting on the bench, watching star halfbacks like Bobby Leo and Vic Gatto and just-a-little-betters like Will Stargel and Ray Horn-blower do the playing, Marshall Goldberg will get his chance Saturday...