Word: clackings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that was past. In New Canaan, Imogene was more interested in the present. She was frequently photographed in scanty swimming suits. She turned her dark, innocent eyes on next-door neighbor Charlie Milton, susceptible treasurer of a bolt company, father of three. New Canaan tongues began to clack...
...sample record made in Richmond, Va., the unmistakable sounds of home set the scene-the chimes of St. Paul's church, the yelp of a newsboy, the tapping of tall heels, the clack-clack-clack of traffic over the Ninth Street Bridge. Neatly interlarded are remembered voices telling of remembered places, and quiet-spoken promises...
...Manhattan newsroom, Broadcaster Bob Trout roamed about with a portable microphone for seven hours, reading rapid-fire dispatches as they clacked in, letting his listeners hear the clack of the tickers, the excited shuffling of chairs...
Varsity tennis captain Jim Jenkins and Don Daniels led the way into the semi-finals of the University Tennis Tournament which has been going along clickoty-clack under the persistent prompting of Coach Jack Barnaby...
...Good lived for many years in South Cameroons, West Africa as a Presbyterian missionary. Drum thumping is as familiar to him as the clack of a telegraph key. An ordinary drum, he says, can be heard three or four miles by day, ten or 15 miles at night. "I know of one exceptional drum that has been heard 25 miles, though its messages could no longer be understood...