Word: clarion
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...what they heard from the U.S. They thought that there was political capital to be made from the crisis, even suggested the possibility of a quick general election this November. Explained one Labor M.P.: "A bit of American stonewalling, and we would go to the country with a dramatic clarion call to rally round retrenchment and reform rather than knuckle under to the dollar...
...weep realistic tears. A group of British models displayed highly exportable bathing suits. Britain's Socialist government begged British businessmen to get in there and pitch a good, hard, competitive game. The New Statesman and Nation's Sagittarius drove the point home on a high and clarion note...
Arrested and tried in 1931 as an officer of an illegal organization, he served almost three years in Kingston Penitentiary. After he got out he helped stage the 1935 March of the Unemployed on Ottawa, conducted a training school for Communists, edited the Communist Clarion. At the outbreak of World War II he went underground...
...clarion call for a return to spiritual values in the individual, in order that our people may have "the balanced qualities of spirit, mind and body," I nominate Charles A. Lindbergh...
...well run as a revolution could be. First, it was financed by Lieut. Colonel Alfonso Llosa, commander of Peruvian army forces high in the Andes by the Bolivian border. Hotheaded, reactionary Soldier Llosa forcibly borrowed 100,000 soles from the local bank; then he issued a clarion call to the army to rise against President Bustamante...