Word: horning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Commending the Democrats on their policy of direct contact with the voters, Dumaine said that one reason for the lack of party unity is that the "darn Republicans won't blow their own horn." He attributed this to the timidity of the wealthy when they attempt to address themselves to the general public...
When Fred J. Borch was named executive vice president of General Electric 15 months ago, the implication was as blaring as the horn on a G.E. diesel locomotive (TIME, Aug. 10, 1962). The post has existed only off and on in G.E.'s history, and is usually reactivated to accommodate an heir apparent. By picking Vice President Borch for it, the board cleared the way for the retirement of Ralph Cordiner, chairman and longtime chief executive. Cordiner has wanted to retire to his 1,800-acre West Florida cattle and citrus ranch, but postponed his departure long enough...
Declining to join, the Rev. Henry Horn of University Lutheran Church said yesterday "I don't want my work identified with what I feel is only a 'revival' rather than an honest approach to the twentieth century." Horn felt that the evangelist would only antagonize many students...
...Chief nodded his head and the contestants took the field. With him, three of his "yara" (household servants) moved sedately and ceremoniously to the middle of the ground to supervise proceedings. Then, at the signal of a high pitched blast on a cowrie studded war horn the young men, the "samari," (warriors who have reached full puberty, been initiated into the tribe, but are still unmarried), the hope of the future and the finest physical specimens available, met, and joined, if not in combat, then certainly in the nearest thing to it short of actual warfare...
...mile course, won points according to the Olympics scoring system, so involved that Texas' Albert Fay complained, "You need a dadgum computer to find out where you stand." Olympic Champion O'Day won one race, was disqualified in the next when he failed to hear the recall horn after a false start, wound up a woeful twelfth in the competition. Norway's Crown Prince Harald was so eager that he beat the gun in the last race, thus costing himself a chance for second place overall instead of eighth...