Word: clack
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...payday for the 3,000 men aboard the U.S.S. Midway, anchored off the French Riviera. One by one, 16 bluejackets disappeared into a storage room below the carrier deck for a little forbidden pleasure. There they got out their bankrolls, settled to their knees. The soft clack of dice and the whisper of plaintive invocations went on all night until the kitty reached some $3,000. Then the door opened, and three more bluejackets pushed in. But these were different: hoods masked their faces, they whispered commands, and they waved pistols. The crapshooters were ordered to stand facing the bulkheads...
Gripps, as the courtly dining room of the Hong Kong Hotel is called. In the Gripps, both British and Chinese scrupulously dressed for dinner. A few blocks away, the steep streets of the Chinese quarter rang with the click-clack of wooden clogs and the incessant rattle and shuffle of mah-jongg pieces...
...Hanoi it was the hour of the siesta. A Chinese soup vendor beat a hollow stick on a block of wood, click-clack-click, to proclaim his wares. Beyond the lake, in the pagoda of the Seven Crows, a wizened old man in a black robe bent in prayer before a dim effigy of the great Buddha. On the deserted curb five tattered Vietnamese newsboys were playing "to'," an Eastern version of craps...
Said Churchill: "Great events are happening and we must not allow the ceaseless clack and clatter which is the characteristic of our age to turn our minds from them. I still hope that the unity now being established among all the Western democracies and Atlantic powers will ward off from us the terror and unspeakable miseries of a third world...
Electronic Cobwebs. Laymen are usually baffled When they first look at the machines. Except for Bessie, who has thousands of moving parts that spin and clack entertainingly, they are mostly electronic, and look like the insides of big, enormously complicated radio sets. Among their thousands of vacuum tubes runs a tangled web of fine, insulated wire. On their panels lights flash mysteriously: red lights and white lights dancing like motes in the sunlight as the numbers flow. Harvard's newest machine, Mark III, is probably the handsomest. It was built for the Navy's Bureau of Ordnance...