Word: clarions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...compulsory service hangs heavy over their heads like the sword of Damocles. But we must remember that youth is the lifeblood of the nation. Still we cannot send a boy to do the man's job of stopping the savage hordes from the arid steppes. We must heed the clarion call of duty...
Daniel Pinkham, harpsichordist for the Boston Symphony, and Gerald Goguen, clarion trumpeter, will handle the special instrumentation called for by Bach...
Into a huge tent near Gunnison, Colo, last week strode brisk, blue-eyed "Colonel" Arthur Weimer Thompson, dean of U.S. cattle auctioneers. In his clarion voice he addressed his audience of 1,500: "You men are the backbone of America. Burn all the cities down-you farmers and ranchers will live. Tear up the farms and ranches-that's the end for everybody...
...Congressmen-who would rather have run on their own records and on local issues-the statement was just what might have been expected of the product of so many hands. It was guarded where it should have been outspoken; diffuse where it might have been concise. It sounded no clarion...