Word: clang
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...narrow streets of the Old City. Arab merchants, sitting cross-legged on bolts of cloth, still tried to entice customers in the bazaars of King David's Street. But the vendors were wary and sharp-eyed. Any sudden movement of police or soldiers was likely to bring the clang of rung-down iron shutters, a scurrying for cover. For in Jerusalem (or Haifa or Tel-Aviv or Jaffa) sudden action might mean an exchange of shots. "It is our worst year," said one Arab. "There is no spirit for Ramadan...
...enormous silence fell over U.S. industry. Nothing like it had ever happened before; all the walkouts, lockouts, panics and fires of modern times had scarcely muted the clang and throb of the nation's production. Now the fast rising tide of postwar strikes lapped up into the fire rooms of whole industries, sent 1,500,000 U.S. workmen into the midwinter streets, created ghost forests of smokeless stacks from Buffalo, N.Y. to Los Angeles, Calif...
...uneasy choice put up to them this week. Radio's No. 1 show devoted to what's good for children (and made as easy to listen to as radio knows how) moved in on Superman, Uncle Don, Dick Tracy, and Terry and the Pirates, who usually clang and bang up the air during radio's nightly children's hour (5-6 p.m., E.S.T...
Cool, retiring Georgia O'Keeffe's shows are hung by her husband, Photographer-Art Dealer Alfred Stieglitz, in an ascetically bare 17th-floor office building suite. Dealer Stieglitz also handles all O'Keeffe sales; these are usually accompanied by a resounding clang of the cash register. O'Keeffe oils bring between $3-4,000. Record: $10,000, in 1937, for an untitled flower piece bought by Manhattan Beautician Elizabeth Arden...
...drums go bang, the cymbald clang, Cas is a father, he breaks one engagement and makes two, abducts his own child, and relaxes his Dr. Wassell expression to play nursemaid to his daughter in a cheap hotel room. As in all comedy everybody lives happily with a capital slap...