Word: clangor
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...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...
...little destroyer lurched as her helm was put over and the engine-room annunciator called for full speed ahead. Her alarm gongs clanged "General Quarters." Before the clangor had subsided, the men off watch-tin-helmeted officers, sailors, messboys-had reached their stations...
This week, at a quiet sheriff's sale in Philadelphia where the new company was the only bidder, the oldest shipyard in America changed hands. With many a minor financial detail yet to be unraveled, the clangor of riveting tools on the Delaware was still weeks away. But Cramp's already had a firm Navy promise for $100,000,000 in orders for cruisers...
Naval warfare on the high seas, on the broad Atlantic and Pacific, is not warfare in landlocked fjords. Trust your fleet." Echoing the Secretary's words was the clangor in U. S. shipyards last week. On the ways, in the mold lofts, some $750,000,000 worth of warships were building -approximately 80 additions to the growing U. S. Navy, now neck & neck with Great Britain in the race for world naval supremacy. Of these new vessels, eight were battleships, two aircraft carriers...
...those who would like to place themselves aloof from the clangor of the city tomorrow night, Adams House offers a penthouse atmosphere and the music of Don Gahan's orchestra to sooth that restless feeling...