Word: clattered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When audience research showed the TV networks that nearly as many fathers as kids watched western movies, they realized that they were missing a bet. So, with a clatter of hoofs and a hi-yo, the networks this season launched a flood of "grownup" westerns and began drawing a bead on the competition. Last week CBS's Gunsmoke shot up past an NBC Spectacular (Max Liebman's Dearest Enemy) by a score of 20.8 to 17.3 in the Trendex ratings. At ABC, the Cheyenne segment of Warner Bros. Presents has piled up so many more viewers than...
...dominant figure in U.S. politics forced to the sidelines for-perhaps-the rest of the year, the national political situation last week began to take on the unreal air of the Dodo's caucus race. No one announced that anyone was running, but there was a persistent clatter of hurrying feet in a sort of circle...
...Moscow, and behind them half a million square miles of Russia lay charred. Only ten years before, a sullen shuffle of a defeated, captured Nazi army marched on dismal parade through Moscow's streets. And now, with a rattle of drums, a blare of horns and the clatter of a goose-stepping honor guard, the leader of the new Germany was received in Moscow...
...wanted to come to a glossy farewell reception: "Come, of course. And bring your wife. Just mention your name at the door." For the first time, the silken-draped Russian embassy was opened to TV cameras, and beneath the floodlights Matskevich stood sweating happily among 400 guests. Amid the clatter of good will could be heard snatches of U.S.-Russian conversation: "What is the impression after Geneva . . .?" "I was in the infantry myself . . ." "Maybe music can be the language to draw us closer together...
...milling newsmen (there were 1,400 assembled there) were already predicting that no real decisions would be reached at Geneva. Ignoring the portents, delegates doggedly cultivated the air of good fellowship. All up and down Geneva's shoreline, villas resounded with the clinking of glasses and the clatter of plates as Russians dined the British, British dined the Russians, Russians dined the French...