Word: clangor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which, according to Hindu legend, wells up from underground. At the Triveni Sangam (Meeting of the Three Rivers) last week, a tumultuous tent city had grown up, peopled by 3,000,000 Hindus. By thousands of fires, breech-clouted sadhus (holy men) chanted Vedic hymns. Around the clock a clangor of raucous songs mingled with hymns, flutes with elephant bells, caterwauls with the keening of sacred recitations. The millions had come for the religious festival of Ardh Kumbh Mela, to revel and to bathe where the sacred rivers meet...
Peace and homecoming, peace and homecoming rang like the clangor of Christmas bells in the heart of nearly every American last week...
...hardships, but held relentlessly to their war labors by the Gestapo, the military, the ordinary police, the Nazi Party. No vestige of a German underground exists; no German yet dares to raise voice or hand against Adolf Hitler and his men. Furthermore, the Nazi radio was not all empty clangor in German ears. Ordinary Germans might be weary of much that Naziism had brought, but they had not lost their fierce love for the Vaterland, still wanted to believe that it could be saved...
...week long its clangor rang in Adolf Hitler's ears...
...Britain's bells did not join in the joyful clangor. From some of the 1,200 blitzed parishes the bells are gone; others hang in belfries so weakened that they cannot be pulled. From most of Sir Christopher Wren's famed churches in the City of London came no sound. St. Clement Dane's ("Oranges and lemons, say the bells of St. Clement's") were still.* Silent, too, were the famous Bow bells of Cheapside, within whose sound all Cockneys were once born...