Word: horning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soviets, according to most Western analysts, the long-term goal is control of Middle East oil. In Afghanistan, they have built a new airfield in the corner of the country closest to the mouth of the Persian Gulf. In the Horn of Africa last week, Soviet-backed Ethiopia attacked its traditional enemy next door, Somalia, probably with the help of Cuban and East German advisers. If the Ethiopians should defeat Somalia, they and their
...appears by the entrance in a chic black dress adorned with a golden rooster brooch, "the sign of good cuisine," she explains. Now it is the waiters, formal in their tuxedos, who take over, announcing the program and pacing the elaborate performance. The first guests arrive: James and Judy Horn, a pair of young Chicago attorneys. They are celebrating their tenth wedding anniversary. George, a jolly pink-cheeked waiter whose wife has stitched his name in yarn across his jacket, takes charge of what Banchet has labeled "Le Show," wafting a silver platter laden with treasures under the noses...
...much going on at this time of year." Squelching down the hillside behind her house, she point out the day lilies and ferns pushing up through the puddles and picks wild leeks for breakfast soup. An intense aesthetic response to mud is characteristic of Vermonters. In Montpelier's Horn of the Moon Cafe, a superannuated hippie explains, "Mud is, like, very natural. . . you know, like earth ... it, like, binds us together here in Vermont...
...Salvador's new President is a short, balding man with black horn-rimmed glasses and a reputation for political shrewdness that belies his gentle, unassuming manner. He studied economics at the University of Chicago from 1951 to 1955, and subsequently worked for the Washington-based of American States. Magaña's nomination by the army reportedly stems from his practice of giving preferential interest rates to military officers during his 17 years as president of El Salvador's Banco Hipotecario. Said to have a flexible attitude toward the land-and banking-reform programs and a willingness...
...times, with three of the laxmen's goals coming within less than 20 seconds of each other, starting at the 7:23 mark. Adelphi awoke front its earlier scoring coma and bounced back with six of its own tallies, putting the score at 10-7 when the halftime horn blew...