Word: horning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ordinance that prohibits dogs from running loose. After pursuing Mike for 45 minutes down streets, over front lawns and across a muddy ballpark where he lost his slippers, Hughes finally wearied of the chase and returned to his mansion. Next he tried summoning his wayward pooch with a hunting horn. After awaking the neighborhood, the Governor gave up and Mike wandered home. "He seemed," said his master, "to have enjoyed it very much...
Even before Early Bird reached its final station, it went to work. American Telephone & Telegraph's great horn antenna at Andover, Me., which is now leased by Comsat, sent a television test pattern up to the satellite. Back the pattern came to Andover, its quality so good that Siegfried H. Reiger, Comsat's technical vice president, proudly told a press conference: "The television capability of the Early Bird satellite is established...
...eighth inning, Hofheinz gave up, growled an order-and the giant Scoreboard did its home-run trick. Lights flashed, skyrockets soared, gongs sounded, whistles shrieked, bells rang. Two cowboys appeared on the huge screen, firing six-guns, followed by a steer with a U.S. flag on one horn and the Lone Star on the other. Hofheinz sighed happily. "Nobody can ever see this," he said, "and still think that Houston is bush...
Magnificent Deduction. Launching and outfitting any new museum involves prodigious effort. The old county museum was an attic for archaeology and science as well as art. "It was a historical anomaly," says Director Brown, "really a 16th century Wunderkammer, with everything but a unicorn's horn and an ostrich egg." Stutz Bearcats, dinosaur tails and mineral collections clamored for attention with the art works...
...Nuages"--the first--was disappointing. This fragile piece must be played with a pull that will give it direction without destroying the mood. It was the absence of this force, plus a certain heaviness, that kept "Nuages" from coming off, though Carl Schlaikjer's luscious English horn solos helped to make up for the orchestra's deficiencies...