Word: horning
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Barring a typhoon in the Sea of Japan or a full-scale war in the Persian Gulf, a squadron of American warships will steam into Vladivostok's Golden Horn harbor this week for the first visit by the U.S. Navy in more than 50 years. Last week, while a pinafored band practiced The Stars and Stripes Forever in Revolution Square, Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze was a few blocks away, addressing a conference of about 100 experts on Asia from 19 countries. "Not bad for what is still officially classified as a closed city," remarked Vladimir Kuznetsov, the provincial governor...
...probably from tuberculosis. The Nobel- prizewinning novelist only suggests the cause of death, allowing the disease to spread subtly into metaphor. As ex-President Bolivar passes through corrupting cities and pestilential villages on the way to retirement, his dream of "one nation, free and unified, from Mexico to Cape Horn," collapses as surely as his consumptive lungs. Fever inspires delirious memories of battlefield victories and bedroom intrigues. Ideals, glory, vitality and hope are overgrown by failures...
...high noon on Aug. 24, thousands of spectators are expected to line the banks of the Chicago River to witness a colorful moment in the annals of water sports. At the sound of an air horn, the waters will surge with the sleek forms of 30,000 highly competitive rubber ducks...
...object's significance may be as much artistic as it is religious: incredibly well preserved, it is intact except for a missing left horn. Israeli archaeologists are in awe of its beauty. Says Avraham Biran, former director of the Israeli Department of Antiquities: "People will be copying this because it's so pretty, so delicately done. It's in a class by itself...
...even great expectations could not diminish the celebration when the title was finally captured. The Crimson rolled through an unblemished 15-game schedule. They weren't alone when the final horn sounded--more than 200 Harvard fans made the trek to Palmer Stadium in Princeton in the middle of final exams to help celebrate the title...