Word: trumpeted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Marines now trumpet matrimony. Four years ago, General Carl Mundy, Krulak's predecessor, was denounced for trying to bar married Marine recruits. But earlier this year, the corps heralded the wedding of a young Marine couple that left for boot camp at Parris Island shortly after they exchanged vows. "We'd see each other when our formations passed each other," recalls Private Sarah Wallace of Sioux City, Iowa, the uniformed bride...
Northeastern's Levin predicts that "the security industry is a growth industry into the next millennium," and that sector's huge current profitability supports the prophecy. Ads for De Becker's latest book also trumpet "Gift of Fear Seminars," and although some may find his approach too theoretical or mistake his emphasis on prevention for blaming the victim, he will probably make a lot of money and save a few lives...
DIED. ADOLPHUS ("Doc") CHEATHAM, 91, late-blooming trumpeter; in Washington. Once an understudy for Louis Armstrong, Doc became a leading sideman of the swing era. His buttery lyricism and witty improvisations played better with age. By his seventh decade, he had grown into his trademark stance--trumpet held high, pointed to the heavens...
...junior high, Jones took up what was to be one of his life-long loves, the trumpet, and sang in a gospel quartet. He made his local debut with a horn solo at a school Christmas pageant at the age of 12, his national debut as a trumpeter for Billie Holiday...
...seven children ranging in age from 4 to 44, and two scars on his forehead are reminders of his 1974 surgery for two life-threatening brain aneurysms, which left him unable to play the trumpet...