Word: horning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...coffee and doughnuts at the snack bar. Some pastors try to talk briefly with churchgoers as they roll out through the gates; the Rev. James Wallace Hamilton of Pasadena Community Church in St. Petersburg, Fla., even encourages his mobile congregation to greet visiting preachers with "a gentle, dignified horn toot...
Luck helped Harvard on Cornell's next drive. Robertson found end Bob Horn 15 yards inside Crimson territory with a perfect pass. Defender Cobb had been faked deep and Horn was all alone, but he bobbled the ball and couldn't control it as he stepped out of bounds...
Cornell got the ball back and made its final bid. Robertson moved into Harvard territory with two 15-yard passes then his Horn on the Crimson 35. But back at the line of scrimmage one of the game's roughest individual duels had finally exploded. Harvard defensive tackle Joe DeBettencourt, no soft cookie himself, had hit Big Red tackle Tom Dichl with a solid charge, and the 250 Pound Hotel Administration major responded with a forearm shot to DeBettencourt's head. DeBettencourt, the Harvard senior, with unusual politeness, turned the other cheek--and an accusing finger--toward Diehl...
...Chinese Communists wt:e massing for their invasion. "This wholly human failing of discounting or ignoring all unwelcome facts," writes Ridgway wryly, "seemed developed beyond the average in MacArthur's nature." He adds: "I cannot help drawing a parallel with Custer's behavior at the Little Big Horn, when the commander's overriding belief that he alone was right closed his mind to all counsel...
When the behemoth, which is entitled Smoke, was put on view last week, a blue-eyed, bearded man, beaming from behind horn-rimmed glasses, said, "Don't you love it? It's crazy. It strikes me as one of the most profound things I've ever seen. It's so serene...