Word: horning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...four who do get back and manage to complete 100 missions win membership in an elite club that now numbers in the hundreds. When a pilot hits the magic mark, his fellow pilots and flight mechanics roll out the red carpet for his return, give him a rousing, horn-honking parade of fire trucks and maintenance vehicles. In turn, he provides a bottle of champagne, then forks out a month's combat pay that night for drinks all around...
Despite that gloomy assessment, none of the foreign ministers thinks that the Asunción Conference has doomed the grand vision of a free market stretching from the Rio Grande to Cape Horn. Indeed, one of the conference's achievements was the approval of a regional subgrouping within LAFTA that will soon open up a free-trade zone embracing 50 million people. The so-called "Andino group" of Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru and Chile will begin planning its tariff cuts next month. As for LAFTA, its diplomats will resume talks in November. If nothing else, they discovered at Asunci...
WOODSTOCK, VT., Little Theater. Neil Simon's Come Blow Your Horn, a tale of two brothers, reaps a harvest of hilarity...
...then stood up to conduct Beethoven's Symphony No. 7 with crisp authority. Such experience helps him as a pianist, he says, because "piano music is so symphonic. The piano is a neutral-sounding instrument on which you have to orchestrate the other sounds-the oboe, the horn, the strings...
...Boisterous pedestrians, revved engines, and low-flying jets are heard in profusion. All have a perverse way of intruding into the music at precisely the "wrong moments"--as if any moment would not be the wrong moment! Last night's audience even had the benefit of hearing an automobile horn anticipate the solo violin by sounding precisely the same "A" with which it was to enter a few second later...