Word: horning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...them sent to Joliet-by paying $20,000 a year to detectives on the city burglary squad. One dapper thief, spotted by a victim, was arrested and put through police lineup, but escaped identification because a friendly ($1,000) Chicago cop disguised him in a new hairdo and horn-rimmed glasses...
...leaving the country. Half a dozen of the angriest settlers were at Nairobi Airport to greet homecoming Michael Blundell (see box), the moderate who accepted the new plan in London and bravely agreed to try to sell it to his fellow whites. One kept booming through a bull horn: "Shame, shame; shame on you! We have been betrayed by you, Mr. Blundell!" Others cried, "You rat!," and their leader, wiry little highlands farmer, Major Jim Hughes, 63, hurled a handful of coins at Blundell's feet, shouting, "Here are 30 pieces of silver for you, Judas-go on, pick...
...reference to your reviewer's criticism of Glendon Swarthout, you still have to use the back seat for automotive amour - in the front you hit the horn...
Action. Every Saturday since, she has slogged into villages without schools, called the people together on a cow's horn, exhorted them to help her build a 100-student school so their children will be "good for something." Then, in wide-brimmed white hat and apron, outworking her helpers, she hacks out a foundation, cuts timber, makes cement blocks, installs plumbing. In between, she keeps the children busy planting gardens, teaches adults how to read, write, cook and stay healthy, and every so often breaks out her guitar for singing and dancing. "I open their eyes," says she. "Then...
...Music-in-the-Making series, now in its eighth season, presented a concert at Cooper Union featuring the works of Dika Newlin. Andrew Imbrie, Teo Macero, Wayne Barlow and Richard Arnell. Best of the lot were Composer Macero's Polaris, a virtuoso piece for French horn and orchestra, which gives the horn a chance to indulge in all the odd wiggles, slides and quirks it is capable of, and Arnell's Concerto Capriccioso, marked by rich string harmonies and a delicate interplay between the solo violin and the winds. Privately financed, the Music-in-the-Making concerts feature...