Word: trumped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...then from high in the Whispering Gallery a Royal Horse Guards trumpeter sounded the Last Post, its plaintive notes ascending and echoing round the dome itself. In answer, from across the cathedral, came the bugle call of Reveille played by a Royal Irish Hussar, a hearty and heartening last trump that would have stirred the old warrior's blood...
...graded classes, "new" this or that -have in the main worked toward a successful transformation of U.S. secondary education. Although the U.S. educational system is too varied, too unwieldy, too much subject to local control for the tide to be national, the direction is clear. Says J. Lloyd Trump, who pioneered the team-teaching method: "We're on the fringe of a golden era in education. It's going to come slowly, but we're heading there...
Church concedes that the U.S. has no present alternative except to continue its military support of the Saigon government, but argues that if the situation in Viet Nam can be stabilized sufficiently so "that it would be possible to go with some trump cards to the conference table, then I think we might reach an international agreement, declaring this whole region to be neutral, and requiring the withdrawal of all foreign troops." Such an arrangement might be guaranteed by "our own military power"-just how, Church does...
Okio: A magic name and a potent G.O.P. organization are 47-year-old Robert A. Taft Jr.'s trump cards, but Goldwater's name on top of the ticket is a deuce. Even so, it would probably take a 500,000-vote Johnson win to sweep crusty Incumbent Stephen M. Young, 75, into a second term. Leaning strongly to Taft...
...Negro had played his trump card: he had reminded this group of white liberals that he is black, and has had experiences they can never know without changing their color. There was nothing the whites could say. For most Harvard undergraduates argue from emotion: they base their judgments about things moral and political on their own feelings--and by asserting his emotional uniqueness, the Negro had deprived the whites of any grounds for refutation...