Word: clattered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Attention!" called Colonel Walter R. Graham, Landsberg's U.S. commandant. Blobel stiffened; the hangman and his assistants slipped a black hood over Blobel's head, adjusted the heavy noose. A priest intoned a prayer. The trap sprang open with a clatter...
...with top brass, music by the U.S. Air Force band. But for several tense minutes each show, listeners are carried from their armchairs across 6,000 miles of the Pacific. Last week they were pressed hard against a low stone wall rimming a Korean rice field and hearing the clatter of U.S. .50-cal. machine guns as they sprayed an enemy-infested hillside...
Tintamarre was a clatter, which might be useful for the modern cocktail party with "its tinkle (or crash) of glasses, and strident babble of voices...
Said Churchill: "Great events are happening and we must not allow the ceaseless clack and clatter which is the characteristic of our age to turn our minds from them. I still hope that the unity now being established among all the Western democracies and Atlantic powers will ward off from us the terror and unspeakable miseries of a third world...
...invasion of Formosa. During the rest of the year weather conditions, including typhoons, protect the island. This summer, then, may bring an event to which the U.S. has already officially resigned itself-the Communist conquest of Formosa. When the Reds attack, there will undoubtedly be a great clatter in the U.S., a sudden recognition that Formosa's fall may touch off a chain of reactions throughout Asia and change basically the U.S. position in the cold...