Word: clarion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with all the roses at 35 to 1. Outside of that, only ten times in 92 years has any horse hit the wire rated at more than 10 to 1. So imagine the astonishment at Churchill Downs last week when the Derby winner turned out to be Proud Clarion, a 30-to-l shot that didn't even have a jockey 48 hours before the race. What's more, Proud Clarion ran the mile and a quarter in 2 min. 1/5 sec., third fastest time in history, only 1/5 sec. off the track record...
...America and his first opportunity to meet Latin American Presidents, many of whom had been prepared to dislike him. But Johnson proved far more charming and disarming, far more simpatico than most of them had expected-and they were won over. Even more important, the U.S. President sounded a clarion call that none of them could resist: "Let us declare the next ten years the Decade of Urgency...
...most nearly satisfactory portrayal is Douglas Watson's Brutus, the central and most complex character in the play. Watson's speech is for the most part clear, clean, clipped and, when appropriate, clarion. He makes it evident that Brutus is pulled in more than one direction; the other characters have singleness of vision and purpose and see things in black-and-white, but the noble Brutus is cursed with the gravity of grappling with grays...
...appears that those who look to the people for a clarion call to end the war are going to be seriously disappointed by the results of this November's elections. Contests for House and Senate seats are unlikely to produce any stunning victories for "peace candidates," and have already provided some conclusive defeats. The impending fall in Democratic percentages cannot be seen as the result of a referendum on the war, but as a political inevitability...
...appears that those who look to the people for a clarion call to end the war are going to be seriously disappointed by the results of this November's elections. Contests for House and Senate seats are unlikely to produce any stunning victories for "peace candidates," and have already provided some conclusive defeats. The impending fall in Democratic percentages cannot be seen as the result of a referendum on the war, but as a political inevitability...