Word: clatterer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...will not reduce the tank's top speed of 42 m.p.h. The Pentagon says that the uranium, a residue of the weapons' production process, will expose crewmen to only a slight radiation dose that poses no health hazard. The first of 2,499 newly armored tanks is scheduled to clatter off the assembly line in October...
...attempt to utilize effectively the space of the North House Dining Hall. director Blake Spraggins often stages scenes simultaneously on the upper and lower levels, with less than successful results. Actors meander aimlessly through the audience, pretending not to notice a love song being performed above them. The clatter of actors fumbling with props on the upper level disrupts speech on the lower level. In the final scene, most of the dialogue crucial to the resolution of the plot cannot rise above the noise of stomping feet, as the actors chase each other all over the stage...
...naughty boy," she tells him, perhaps before he has even flirted with a naughty thought. But Dan is a man, and pathetically ordinary. From curiosity or concupiscence, from boredom or weakness, he goes to her apartment. Next thing, they are making mad sex by the kitchen sink. Dirty dishes clatter under her buttocks. Tap water lubricates their lust...
...have forced the government of & Communist Party Chief Najibullah to take precautions within the capital. There are insistent signs of anxiety. Sounds of distant artillery salvos punctuate Kabul evenings like erratic heartbeats. Searchlights rake the surrounding hills in search of rebel infiltrators. In the daytime, armored personnel carriers often clatter through city streets that are patrolled by soldiers armed with Kalashnikov assault rifles...
...miracles here, but there is a collective refusal to succumb to the temptations of self-pity or despair. Betty and Gerald Ford have witnessed some extraordinary changes in life and in politics, and the sounds that now emanate from the Betty Ford Center may be the cheery clatter of the last laugh...