Word: horning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pair of large statue outside the Biology Labs, but not before he had brutally insulted the Immense Indian. Flanked by a sympathetic crowd, Karandas began railing at the young defective. Just thehn Biff noticed a large piece of green and white paper impaled all the horn of one of the rhinoceroses...
...base that declined in the 1950's, they sought, in President Pusey's words, "to give a new spin to the Hub." Together--Collins pacifying, convincing, gently forcing; and Logue pushing, sometimes so hard and with so little grace that critics have come to regard him as a tin-horn Robert Moses--they formed an alliance for progress with Boston's major business and civic leaders--Charles Coolidge, president of the Chamber of Commerce; Gerald W. Blakeley Jr., head of the real estate management firm of Cabot, and Forbes; and James McCormack Jr., vice-president of MIT and an active...
...Rhinoceros?" gasped Biff, looking backwards over his head at the green beast that sheltered him. "Rhinoceros? I though the hippopotamus had the horn." And then his heart missed a beat: for impaled on the horn of the animal, and flapping gently in the breeze, was a large piece of green and white paper...
...Bach Society concert Sunday evening in Paine Hall began with a croak from the horn. The first piece on the program was Webern's arrangement of the Ricercare of Bach's Musical Offering, and the theme of Frederick of Prussia's is first stated by the horn alone; admittedly it is a dirty trick to play on the unfortunate hornist, but it is a common enough practice, and this particular player was not up to it. He also succeeded in spoiling a large part of the orchestral accompaniment to the soprano in the Beethoven aria Primo amore, piacer del ciel...
...capacity for fun--and blowing his own horn--is prodigious. Most of his fellow councillors appreciate and tolerate Vellucci. "Oh, he's peppy tonight," commented one to the press table when Al began a typical harrangue, "What'd you guys do, feed him some pills before he came today?" The councillor was irritated and amused: at the time, the session was more than four hours old, and eight people remained in the audience. Still Al Vellucci wouldn't shut...