Word: horning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Skipper Barbara Grant '73 and crew Kathy Angell '74 piloted their craft to a win over Boston University, Jackson and M.I.T. "They're continuing to dominate women's sailing this fall," coach Michael Horn said after the regatta...
...crowding into Manhattan's new Lincoln Square Synagogue since shortly after sunrise. Now Rabbi Steven Riskin and the cantor huddled together. "Tekiah," intoned the rabbi softly, using the Hebrew command for a long blast on the shofar. The cantor tensed his cheeks and raised the ram's horn to sound the melancholy note, the first of a hundred blasts that began the High Holy Days...
...trumpet, the youngster from Leeds, England, sounds like Louis Armstrong. What he plays is mostly Louis: When It's Sleepy Time Down South, When the Saints Go Marching In. And at the Manhattan nightclub where he has been appearing, customers respond with rare enthusiasm to his strong, clean horn tones. Just in case anyone misses the point, Enrico rolls his eyes occasionally like Satchmo and even pulls out a white handkerchief to mop his forehead...
...individual, a genuine musical prodigy-and on an instrument that demands physical maturity above all else. Many a child can scribble music or peck away at the piano. But an accomplished trumpeter needs a strong, well-developed diaphragm to pump a constant, high-pressure stream of breath into his horn. He needs powerful, tireless lips to shape his embouchure (or his "pucker," as Louis Armstrong liked to call it). Enrico...
...played the Basin Street Blues for him. "Boy, you got some chops there!" growled the flabbergasted Louis. For two weeks Armstrong had Enrico as his backstage guest, teaching him to shoot craps and offering sporadic worldly advice: "Don't marry any woman who don't dig your horn...