Word: orneryness
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To replace the late Harvey D. Gibson as president of the Manufacturers Trust Co., directors chose big, white-thatched Henry C. von Elm, 62, longtime banker and chairman of Manufacturers since 1947. Von Elm, who has charmed even the most ornery stockholders by his suave conduct of the bank'...
Life With Father. The indomitability had cropped out in him early, though not in the sense approved by Horatio Alger. He was the third child (in a family of five boys, three girls) of a Swiss-born construction contractor named William Rickenbacher.* Father Rickenbacher was a big, black-haired man...
"What are they worrying about?" asked Editor Thomas Dabney of the Socorro, N.Mex. Chieftain. "All the critters came back to the crater, and they're just as ornery as they ever were."
Jockey Ted Atkinson knew Capot's peculiarities like a book: "If some other horse cuts out a dizzy pace, he is bull-headed enough to want to run him down. If you take a hold on him, trying to save something for the end, he gets ornery and won...
In London, U.S. Ambassador Lewis Douglas contributed to good Anglo-U.S. relations by bringing a touch of horse opera into Mayfair. A startled horse, ridden by a lady on her way to Rotten Row, began to rear and plunge in front of Douglas' car. Rancher Lew (he owns...