Word: horning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Scorers will plot the competitors' progress on a blackboard during the contest. A horn will sound to mark the downing of each griddlecake...
...been unlocked earlier in the morning as regular procedure, but no members of the administration had arrived in their offices when OBU went in. When Dean May arrived for work the building was locked and barricaded from the inside. May spoke through a bull horn to the demonstrators and told them that they would be charged with trespassing unless they left. About 15 per cent of the demonstrators were not Harvard students. but came from other OBU campus groups...
...surging, frenzied audience reacting typically to Janis Joplin's Try a Little Harder. The cops resorted to a bullhorn, and that annoyed Janis. "Listen," she shouted, "I know there won't be any trouble if you'll just leave!" The officers refused and sounded the horn again. That did it. Janis, as a fan reported, "simply went nuts," blistering the air with a string of oaths and obscenities, whereupon the cops hustled her off to jail on charges of using profanity and indecent language. Free on bail, the queen of hyperthyroid blues insisted: "I say anything...
...announced that students who continued to demonstrate obstructively would be subject to disciplinary action and prosecution for trespass, and ordered all non-University demonstrators to leave immediately or face criminal trespass charges. Although May spoke to the crowd through a bull-horn, continual chanting, clapping, and foot-stamping at times drowned out his statement...
...rock groups were scheduled to play during the afternoon in the Common, but they didn't show up. All was not lost, however, as the Zoomobile from the Boston Zoological Society arrived with a complement of 15 captives, ranging from a four-horn sheep to a six-foot boa constrictor...