Word: trumpeted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...enduring dream of the Republican Party has been to secure a foothold in the states of the old Confederacy, from whose borders it was driven nearly a century ago by the collapse of the Republican Reconstruction governments. Today the dream has come true, but the trumpet call that is summoning Southerners to the G.O.P.'s standard is at best uncertain, uncomfortably mingling racism and progressivism. Republicans in other sections of the country have had to stop and ask themselves just what kind of a new party has grown up in Dixie...
...official conferred with his superior; then someone blew a trumpet. The water throwers began dousing the seated students. Umbrellas popped open--but the high-pressure streams shredded the fabric and twisted the spidery metal ribs...
Again the trumpet blew. The police broke their lines and swinging billy clubs charged the students. Some marchers ran to the roadside, picked up stones and hurled them at the police; others escaped into the near-by restaurant at the School of Agriculture. Most ran, littering the road with high-heeled shoes and books...
Barry was more or less raised in the flickering film world. As a teen-ager he worked as a projectionist in a string of movie theaters that his father owned in York. At 19, he played trumpet with a regimental army band stationed in Cyprus, took a correspondence course in composition. Later, he formed the John Barry Seven and made his calculated entrance into the movies by playing the accompaniment for a rock-'n'-roll idol named Adam Faith. Barry's first film score, Beat Girl, led to an invitation to doctor the score...
...tape (a process that took 60 hours of recording time), the three remarkably flexible jazz singers create an exciting vocal equivalent of Basic's big band (accompanied by a real Basie rhythm section). Together, the trio sounds the brasses or the reeds, then Annie Ross sings a bright trumpet solo (in Blues Backstage) or with Hendricks a mellow saxophone duet (Two for the Blues...