Word: clatterer
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...Viet Nam debate that the question of live coverage, of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearings precipitated a crisis last week that can only be called a tempest in a TV-pot. Fred Friendly, the big, burly, able president of CBS News, quit his job, and from the clatter it made, television's esthetes would have thought that Art had caved in before the know-nothings...
...high heels with a bone-jarring right cross to the jaw. Aha! Just as he thought: it was not the widow but the assassin himself. Accompanied by thumping kettledrums, 007 methodically works the villain over with karate punches and a well-placed kick, then strangles him to death. A clatter of cymbals brings on a gang of bodyguards as 007 bounds onto a balcony, coolly dons his one-man rocket unit and goes whooshing up, up and away to a shattering chorus of gunfire and screeching trumpets...
...which the clothes themselves act as insulation. The studs in the Fiberglas-insulated walls are staggered, so that no single stud touches both sides of the wall, therefore cannot conduct noise. On the ceiling, sound is absorbed by 2 in. of glass wool surfaced with vinyl. To reduce the clatter of heels, vinyl is laid over an asbestos-and-foam cushion on the floor. Other floors have wall-to-wall carpeting with extra-thick underpadding
...units are segregated from the rest of the house in acoustically sealed closets, and all air ducts are lined with Fiberglas or board. Dishwashers and disposals are housed in rubber and glass-wool casings to cushion vibrations. Even the underbellies of sinks are swathed in felt to soften the clatter of silver and glassware clanging against the stainless steel...
...mountain men-a mixture of Hrey, Bahnar, Rhade and Muong tribals -dug in and held. As they turned their mortars on their own overrun positions, their women carted ammunition into the trenches and fed belts into the clatter ing machine guns. It was a grim sort of togetherness, born of desperation. "I think the montagnards fought well because most had their families with them," said an American adviser. "These people are ruthless when it comes to life or death. One guy was in a bunker, completely cut off, and the V.C. called on him to surrender. He told them...