Word: clangors
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There are frequent gleams of rough heroism in the murk of violence. Though Eraser's outlaws are notably grubbier, they are still recognizably the same men immortalized in border ballads like Johnnie Armstrang, Kinmont Willie and The Douglas Tragedy. If the clangor of their combat has been long silenced, it nevertheless has some unexpected contemporary resonances. Living at the heart of Liddesdale, the most intractable part of the whole border, and numbered among the toughest of all the reivers was a family named Nixon. · Charles Elliott
...clamor and the clangor of the calls...
After dinner, Burriss, Young 55, assistant dean of Freshmen and proctor of Massachusetts Hall, read a letterform, the President and Fellows that declared, "This anniversary shall be celebrated this evening with reverence, thanksgiving, decorum, and all degrees of gravity, merriment, and appropriate piping, clangor, and percussion sound...
...electrified magnet to draw clustering thousands last week. As if begot by Bethel, three other rock festivals took place in various corners of the U.S.-in Prairieville, La., near Baton Rouge; in Tenino, Wash.; and in Lewisville, a grassy exurb of Dallas. Top name performers filled the air with clangor. But as at Bethel, it was not just the music but the hordes of young spectators who made the spectacle-and the scene. The Now Sound had confirmed and amplified the Now Look, a bewildering compound of acid and sweet charity, an exuberant blend of innocence and togetherness...
...Premier Ky. Soon all the sound and fury of incipient civil war had enveloped the crucial northern base town: the clank of tank treads, the rattle of sniper fire, the sodden plop of tear-gas grenades, the sudden sky-shaking roar of strafing aircraft. Danang's chaotic clangor had its echoes in Saigon, where Buddhist demonstrators took fitfully to the streets-only to be dispersed by tough, green-clad riot cops. But beneath the sound and fury, the basic directions of the conflict were quite clear and quite chilling...