Word: clang
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Twice in the same day, the clang of fire bells sounded over the Gulf of Tonkin, and the cry of "Fire! Fire! Fire!" issued from the loudspeaker of the U.S.S. Forrestal, the Navy's third largest aircraft carrier (after the Enterprise and America). Each time the blaze was doused in minutes, but an uneasy calm settled over the 76,000-ton ship. Only the day before, the Forrestal had arrived off the North Vietnamese coast for her first combat duty, and her 4,500-man crew grimly recalled that a fire had killed 44 men aboard the carrier Oriskany...
Although we did it well, it is not us. Too ticky-tacky and rah-tata-ta. We are more clang, zip, boom. I think we're heavier--at least we're louder...
After a month of operation, Turquet believes that his pristine store, where the whir of a Bull-GE TAS-84 computer has replaced the clang of pushcarts and the monotony of canned music, is a going concern. His profit margin is 15%, his stock turns over every two weeks, and, says he, "the 2% other supermarkets have to deduct in theft losses ev ery month pays my rental fee for the computer...
...rocking glitter of new talent. Corin, 27, played his first big part (Sir Thomas More's son-in-law) in a big picture (A Man for All Seasons) and charmed the critics with a witty portrait of a political noddy. Lynn, 24, hit the top with a gloriously vulgar clang in a British film called Georgy Girl that left nobody wondering who was the most gifted British comedienne since Kay Kendall. And Vanessa, 30, interrupted an illustrious career on the English stage with two far-out and almost offhand film performances in Morgan! and Blow-Up that suddenly and quite...
...technique, as Berlitz officials unashamedly admit, is suspiciously close to that of brainwashing. "What we try to do," says New York Berlitz Director Emanuel Huarte, "is to break students down mentally until they lose the ability to resist and are receptive to fresh ideas." The breakdown begins to the clang of an 8:15 a.m. bell in a windowless classroom, where the student faces one of his four alternating instructors. Student and teacher speak nothing but the foreign language during eleven 40-minute periods, relieved only by five-minute English breaks. All day long, the instructor points to objects...