Word: clappings
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...last number was "I want to Hold Your Hand," but by that time most of us were too weak to clap. We just sat back and loved it. Too much...
...noise of stamping and shuffling," he says with enthusiasm. "Yes, here they come. Our glorious incomparable rehabilitated invalids. A spirited detachment of legless men who are swinging their crutches with gusto. Wooden legs reflect the sun. Two men who have lost an arm each get together so they can clap...
...Queen Mother herself confronted the four young Liverpudlians responsible. There on the stage of London's Prince of Wales Theater stood a wild rhythm-and-blues quartet called the Beatles, and there across the moat of Establishment faces sat the Queen Mother. "Those in the cheaper seats, clap," cried the Beatles' leader. "The rest of you rattle your jewelry." Then the Beatles broke into From Me to You, and the Queen Mother beamed...
...life: "I am still going to write; for me there is no other destiny. But when does writing have an end? What is the warning sign? A trembling of the hand? I used to think that with the completed book you raise the joyful cry 'Finished!' You clap your hands, only to find pouring from them grains of sand you believed to be precious. That is the moment when, in the figures inscribed by those grains of sand, you may read the words 'To be continued...
Muzak keeps an ear cocked for any music that might cause emotional outbursts in its audience. Deep in the Heart of Texas causes workers to clap their hands, forgetting their tasks, and rock 'n' roll makes waitresses put down the soup and dance. Muzak's special service for jet airplanes has discreetly abandoned playing I've Got a Feeling I'm Falling. At last they achieve their artistic ambition: music to be utterly ignored...