Word: clangorously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Several minutes later, the student makes his way down the path to Quincy Street. Morning hopefuls are already streaming into the Union. He takes his place in line, amidst the clangor and clash of trays, silverware, and carts being pushed out of the dining room...
...case dragged on and on. One judge, intimidated by Communist threats, quit in mid-hearing. At the mosque the Moslem devout tried in vain to ignore the clangor of Red ribaldry outside as they prayed. Life-size pictures of Stalin, Voroshilov and Indonesia's Red Boss D. N. Aidit were plastered on the mosque's walls. Then came the final outrage. In the room behind the coffee shop, the Communists installed prostitutes, even let them wash up in the sacred pool reserved for ceremonial ablutions. "If this sickening thing is permitted to go on," stormed one member...
...jiggled with the joy of 1,800 students. Ringleaders wheeled up a great brass bell and banged away with demoniac glee. The whole town (pop. 59,500) welcomed the clangor. The Eagles of Abilene High School were whooping it up for their game with Big Spring, and when Texas high schools play football, their home towns take a holiday...
...expectant freshmen on the morning of September 21, 1928, as they filed before "the huge Gothic pile" to register as members of the Class of 1932. The eyes of Burke and Chatham looked severely down upon them, the jealous gargoyles stared angrily at the Yard behind them, and the clangor of the bell seemed to make time itself revert to the 19th century as they enrolled...
...spare patients and staff the insistent, nerve-racking clangor of bells or "squawk boxes" long used to summon doctors, St. Thomas' Hospital in London adopted some helpful gadgetry. Hooked up to a magnetic loop surrounding the hospital is a transmitter rigged for 56 different frequencies, with one assigned to each staff doctor. When he is wanted, a porter presses the right button, the magnetic impulses actuate a receiver in the doctor's breast pocket so that it gives a discreet "ping, ping," clearly audible to him, not disturbing to others...