Word: clatterer
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...hill in Korea, to Eisenhower's SHAPE headquarters, to a destroyer squadron in the Mediterranean. The incoming messages are caught up by the churning life which animates its rings of corridors, flow to high, bare spaces where it weighs, remembers, balances before it makes its decisions; the answers clatter out over its ceaseless machines...
Blue-jerseyed plane-pushers, shouting like stevedores above the clatter of their tractors, hurried to get the planes back to the Princeton's stern for the next launching. Mechanics, refueling and armament men in scarlet worked the planes over for the next strike. In his chart room abaft the flag bridge, handsome, white-haired Rear Admiral George R. Henderson, commander of Task Force 77, listened to his pilots' reports on the results of their strike. One pilot's instruments had been damaged by enemy ground fire; another thought his plane had been hit too. A young ensign...
...Attention!" called Colonel Walter R. Graham, Landsberg's U.S. commandant. Blobel stiffened; the hangman and his assistants slipped a black hood over Blobel's head, adjusted the heavy noose. A priest intoned a prayer. The trap sprang open with a clatter...
...with top brass, music by the U.S. Air Force band. But for several tense minutes each show, listeners are carried from their armchairs across 6,000 miles of the Pacific. Last week they were pressed hard against a low stone wall rimming a Korean rice field and hearing the clatter of U.S. .50-cal. machine guns as they sprayed an enemy-infested hillside...
Tintamarre was a clatter, which might be useful for the modern cocktail party with "its tinkle (or crash) of glasses, and strident babble of voices...