Word: clattered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Detroit, the boys have adopted a high-laced boot cut on heavy ski-boot lines, which makes an impressive clatter in high-school corridors. For girls, the ballerina slipper is fashionable for anything from study hall to football games. In either sex, of course, only a "squeegie" would wear...
...Perle Mesta the call of duty sounded last week above the merry tinkle of cocktail glasses and the clatter of knives & forks. President Truman named his favorite partygiver and Washington's No. 1 hostess to be the first U.S. Minister to the tiny Grand Duchy of Luxembourg...
...instruments, for instance, had to be replaced after its tests. With normal vibration a lot of them would have gone out of whack. The engines are rugged too. Rolls-Royce engineers tossed two buckets of ice cubes into the nose of one, and the only result was a loud clatter and a puff of steam out the exhaust...
...bare, except for a few pieces of scenery with their brown canvas backs to the audience. The dancers appeared from the wings in their practice clothes: men in dark overalls, girls in black bathing suits. They began to move and gesture. Someone backstage dropped his tools with a loud clatter. In the audience, a small voice asked "Maman, where is the music...
...Gentleman." "You Communists!" retorted Christian Democratic Labor Leader Umberto Tomba. "You find your recruits only among criminals and loose women!" For the moment the Chamber sat in stunned silence. The silence was broken by the hurried clatter of feet; a Communist flying squad dashed toward the Christian Democratic benches...