Word: blatting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cozy & Prudent. By the time the cars droned into darkness and the prissy little blat-blat-blatting of small-car exhausts sounded more prominent as their big brothers collapsed, the Ferrari brakes were shot. Burned-out linings dropped off in frightening ashy hunks. But they had lasted just long enough. The Ferraris rolled easily to a finish that was strictly a family affair. Collins and his co-driver, California's Phil Hill, coasted home first. Another factory-entered Ferrari was an easy second. In third place came a perky little Porsche Spyder (1,587 cc.) that had played...
...steam engine, a joyfully inefficient and individualistic machine, had become the essence of what made the railroads pleasantly different from more modern forms of transportation. But since the war distressed fans have watched the roads transformed into just another mass-produced product of General Motors. Almost everywhere the nasal blat of diesel air horns has replaced the musical tones of multiple-chime steam whistles...
...took aim at the 21-in.-screen hog caller for the world ("When we reach the stage where all of the people are entertained all of the time, we will be very close to having the opiate of the people"), let fly1 at the plug that comes on little blat feet: "More than half the commercials are filled with inanity, asininity, silliness and cheap trickery." TV's Arlene Francis burbled a defense ("We're only babies. We have to grow") after the ancient mellowed slightly and allowed that television is a "young medium, and we will pray...
Touchback. In Bridgeport, Ohio, when parents complained that members of the high-school football squad were undergoing too strenuous training, Coach Al Blat-nik put them to playing drop the handkerchief...
...from the auditorium balcony, or commandeering textbooks from other pupils and selling them back for two bits apiece, "way below wholesale cost," as one of the old gang puts it. Conscious even then of his big voice, he liked to sneak up behind victims in the school corridors and blat a loud note into their ears. Southern High expelled him within two months of graduation. As Mario tells the story, it was because he socked a teacher for slurring his Italian extraction. By then, Freddy weighed 250 Ibs., a blubbery fact that did not prevent him from cutting a wide...