Word: clattered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...minutes before 10 on Friday mornings, the marble corridors of the Supreme Court building's main floor echo with the clatter of handcarts being pushed toward the well-guarded main conference room next door to the Chief Justice's office. The carts contain petitions for certiorari (requests for review, the normal means by which most cases reach the court), briefs, transcripts, memos from clerks, notebooks-every Justice's file on virtually every case that may come up during the taxing all-day session. It usually takes two or three carts to hold each Justice's material...
...stretch of camp biography. With admirable devotion to accuracy Leonardo's lines are limited to sentiments that actually survive in his notebooks. The result is that French Actor Philippe Leroy, who plays him, has little to do but brood burningly upon the world while lines of primordial exposition clatter about him. (Penny-pinching grandfather: "What's the good of all this schooling? It does not put bread on the table...
...adjustment was to the audiences, who were literally a far cry from politely attentive classical listeners. "Can we have a little quiet at Table Five, please?" Roberta would call out hopefully. Sometimes she would flee to her dressing room, vowing tearfully not to return to the bandstand until the clatter subsided. "I'd tell her to go on back out," recalls Wilkerson. " 'Some day they'll listen...
...foothills of Lebanon's Mount Hermon last week, the quiet of almond-blossom time was shattered by the whine of jets, the clatter of tank treads and the thunder of explosions. Israel continued its attacks on Palestinian guerrilla bases inside Lebanon (TIME, March 6), and the fighting there indirectly led to a skirmish on the Syrian border and at least temporarily deprived the fedayeen of one more base of operation against Israel...
...march was ending, and just as the first speaker, Member of Parliament Bernadette Devlin, began to address the crowd. At the foot of William Street, where British troops had blocked the entrance to Londonderry's main business district with armored cars and barbed-wire barricades, there was the clatter of stones, bottles and bits of steel as the troops were attacked by what the army described as "200 or 300 young hooligans." The army responded, first with gas grenades and rubber bullets-ugly black projectiles half as thick as beer cans-then with water cannons that sprayed the crowd...