Word: horning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Resplendent in a purple, lace-cuffed outfit, tricornered hat and horn-rims, he looked like a happy straggler from a Bicentennial parade. But no, that was Arizona Senator Barry M. Goldwater, 67, manning the battlements on Maryland's Chesapeake Bay last week. Called back to active duty to help restage the Battle of St. Michaels, in which American artillerymen beat off an attack by British ships during the War of 1812, retired U.S. Ah" Force Major General Goldwater took command of the defenses, fired off a few ceremonial cannon-and considered the meaning...
...novel Deliverance. North Carolina's Sam Ervin lent the campaign his Old Testament eloquence. "Let us not dam the New River," he said. "I use the word dam in the sense of ruining the New River from now until the last notes of Gabriel's horn tremble into silence, because we cannot use the New River after it has been dammed...
Susan Lyman labels the differences between the Bunting and Horner years as one of style. "Matina is not a person who has bought the national PR approach. We want to do a good job and we aren't anxious to blow our horn," she says...
...flag and the Empire are concerned, it might be subtitled To Subvert Them All My Days or The Devil Is a Welshman. Delderfield's Angry Young Man, 1929-style, is a young bank clerk named Charlie Pritchard-5 ft. 5 in. of meekness, with horn rimmed glasses. After six years of diligent work in his drab little Welsh seaside town, Charlie still boards in a room formerly occupied by a pickle salesman. He has barely risen to be fifth of six clerks. "That's a safe job," everybody tells Charlie until the poor lad, in quiet panic, begins...
...October 1917 that Stokowski made his first recordings with the Philadelphia Orchestra. Those were the days when the musicians gathered in front of a big acoustic horn and played into it. With the advent of electrical recording less than a decade later, Stokowski and the Philadelphia began a series that remains a landmark in quality recording. Then, as now, the Stokowski style is unmistakable-the lush violins, the burnished double basses, the biting brass, the luxuriance of the total sound...