Word: clattered
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...traditional Radcliffe garb: all-white dresses, and white or spectator pumps with rubber heels. Hats and white gloves will be worn at the Baccalaureate services. Rubber heels are a 1948 addition to the costume, made necessary by Sanders' hardwood floors and acoustics which in other years have amplified the clatter of uncushioned spike heels...
...Administration sought desperately for a way out. There was talk of a bipartisan approach to the Palestine problem, which would permit the U.S., without much clatter, to go back on its support for partition. But in an election year, when the big Jewish vote in New York was of prime importance to both parties, there was little chance of an official somersault in U.S. policy...
...Wright as they moved their awkward flying machine out of its shed at Kitty Hawk. Orville, a short, neat man with a heavy mustache, stretched himself flat on his stomach on the lower wing, between the two chain-driven propellers. The twelve-horsepower engine coughed, spat and began to clatter. With Wilbur running alongside holding one wing, the plane teetered down its wooden launching rail and rose unsteadily into the air. For twelve seconds it lurched slowly forward like an uncertain box kite, dipping and bobbing a few feet above the ground, then settled back on to the cold sand...
...With a clatter and a racket and a fuss...
Noisy Man. Many a New Yorker found the news hard to believe, like the silence which follows the clatter of a rivet gun. In 32 years in public life, the Little Flower had been damned as a buffoon and a tyrant, praised as a great liberal and an exacting administrator. He had performed miracles of political acrobatics. But New Yorkers had grown to think of him not so much as a political force but as a manifestation of sound and movement-shrill, vehement, energetic and cacophonous, as oddly comforting as the roar of the subway and the bleat of taxi...