Word: huff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...certainly wasn't the first big fish that Corrine Huff, 26, ever caught, but it was the first blue marlin to fall for her hook, line and sinker. The former Ohio beauty queen, now chief secretary and consoler of Harlem's self-exiled Congressman, Adam Clayton Powell, entered the annual blue-marlin tournament in Bimini, first day out aboard Adam's Fancy made all the muscular males seasick by delicately hauling in a huge, 459-lb. blue. That was enough to win Corrine the tourney right there, but to make everyone more jealous she boated...
...Middle East has undergone so many Arab-Israeli alarums since Israel became a state 19 years ago that even the antagonists often find it difficult to take one another seriously. They huff and they puff, they bluster and threaten, they move troops around like toy soldiers, but-with the single tragic exception of the war over Suez in 1956 -their bravado has rarely amounted to more than local skirmishes. Last week the area once more seemed on the brink of disaster-and this time the huffing and puffing was more serious. In the closest that Israel and the Arab countries...
...serious matter when the San Francisco Symphony learned recently that its stellar tuba player, Ronald Bishop, had been lured away by the Cleveland Orchestra. In its search for a replacement, the San Francisco Symphony rejected all the local candidates. That sent the Musicians' Union into a huff, and the orchestra had to take the union to court before it could carry its talent hunt outside the city. Last week San Francisco finally filled the job-just like a baseball team. It hired Cleveland's F. Chester Roberts...
...first airplane makers were less than impressed with the intense young engineer-pilot; they even refused his offer to work for nothing. In time he caught on as a $108-a-month draftsman at Huff Daland Airplane Co. of Ogdensburg, N.Y. Later he became a stress analyst at Buffalo's Consolidated Aircraft but was soon politely asked to look for employment elsewhere. He was fired outright by Ford Motor Co.'s aviation division...
Turning to a glum little boy, one woman asked: "Well, what did you think of it?" Replied he: "Sounded to me like a lot of notes but not much music." "Well," said the woman, gathering her furs in a huff, "sounded to me as if all the bathroom plumbing went wrong...