Word: horning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although opposition in the Nationals will be predictably stiff, Doyle (a two-time All-American who last year won the North American single-handed title) and coach Mike Horn are confident they have a legitimate claim to the championship...
...Horn is encouraged by the light winds characteristic of Annapolis, which, he says, "seem to favor our skippers...
...Howling Horns. Thousands of manufacturers have pried their way into the beat-the-burglar business. 3M Co., for example, sells a lock containing a small alarm that wails at the touch of a burglar's pick. Pinkerton's is promoting a $449 microwave unit called Minuteman II that rings like a fire siren when anything breaks its circuit. Sears, Roebuck's $99.50 Deluxe Ultrasonic Intruder Alarm blinks on lamps and sets off a shrieking noise if tripped; for a few dollars more a companion attachment outside the house will add a howling horn to the cacophony. Advertisements...
...their children, members of a supposedly radical generation, who genuinely hunger for unexperienced past, as if they were hearing some melancholy autumnal horn summoning them through an undiscovered hallway to a place they can search for but can never find. It is as if they felt cheated for being given their maturity in the sad and sinister world of the '70s. For them, as for Wordsworth, there truly "hath passed away a glory from the earth...
...bumper-bald Gordon Sherman, 43, was in the office round the clock some days-and other days scarcely at all. A man of intense energy and occasional brilliance, he often worked at home, where he also liked to tend his orchids and hummingbirds or tootle his oboe and English horn. Occasionally he held executive meetings at a zoo, or in the office by candlelight. "A certain truth comes out at night that doesn't come out in the board room," he explained...