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[ kal-hoon, kuhl- ] / kælˈhun, kəl- /
nounJohn Caldwell, 1782–1850, vice president of the U.S. 1825–32. Words nearby Calhouncalfskin, calf's tongue, Calgary, Calgary redeye, Calgon, Calhoun, Calhoun, John C., Cali, Caliban, caliber, calibrate Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for CalhounBut, together, Webster, Clay, and Calhoun delayed the Civil War for 40 years. Election Day Is Scarier Than Halloween|P. J. O’Rourke|November 1, 2014|DAILY BEAST Calhoun supported state nullification of federal laws and gave a speech to Congress titled “Slavery as a Positive Good.” Election Day Is Scarier Than Halloween|P. J. O’Rourke|November 1, 2014|DAILY BEAST Invoking Wilberforce allows conservatives like DeMint to pretend that he, not Calhoun, is their moral lodestar and inspiration. What Plantation Is Jim DeMint Living On?|Michael Tomasky|April 11, 2014|DAILY BEAST In a speech on the Senate floor in 1837, Calhoun defended slavery as a “positive good” and not a “necessary evil.” Southern Conservatives Revive Calhounism—Tyranny of the Minority|Jamelle Bouie|June 7, 2013|DAILY BEAST
The "Calhoun Option" is to do whatever possible to stop progress, right here, right now. Wake Up and Smell Reality, Republicans|Justin Green|February 14, 2013|DAILY BEAST In this Clay was conspicuous, and Webster and Calhoun were his sympathetic allies. Expansion and Conflict|William E. Dodd The free-trade party was led by Daniel Webster, and the tariff party by Calhoun. A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year|Edwin Emerson Mr. Calhoun handed her to a chair, where she began to use her languid but effective fan. 54-40 or Fight|Emerson Hough It was a risky guess to make on such evidence as Calhoun considered he had, but no other guess was possible. Pariah Planet|Murray Leinster Calhoun nodded politely and went back to what he'd been doing before she appeared. This World Is Taboo|Murray Leinster
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