Word: horning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...favorite of the ever-favored anti-affectations are horn-or wire-rimmed glasses, a.k.a., spectacles. Just about everyone I know who wears glasses wears them because, after years of trying to find "fashion" frames to fit our faces, they have surrendered. They are happy to wear these at best non-existent and at worst ugly face braces because they are better than trying and failing to find flattering eye wear...
...announcement and shuffles slyly rather than striding officiously through an investigation? Were there, have there been, agents like his immediate superior Ward (Willem Dafoe), hiding a passionate moral (as opposed to a merely legalistic) commitment to the civil rights movement behind a prim manner and a pair of half horn-rims...
...wounded, was the latest skirmish in a war that has pitted a growing army of rhino and elephant poachers against an outgunned force of rangers and police. The lure for poachers is great: prized in Asia as an aphrodisiac and in Yemen for making dagger handles, a single rhino horn can fetch as much...
After poachers killed three rangers last August, Kenyan President Daniel arap Moi issued a shoot-on-sight policy. But wildlife experts are concerned that as long as trade in ivory and rhino horn continues, the government is destined to lose its battle to stop the butchery...
...This will give people an alternative to going to another house or outside the school," said Matthew Horn '89, vice chair of the Dudley House Committee...