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...That status will not ease the nominee's burden from here to November. Almost every time he is seen in public with a woman, or a feminine acquaintance mentions his name with what her listeners consider a special inflection, tongues will wag and columnists' typewriters will clatter...
...major supply port of the Korean war. Its harbor is jampacked with ships from nearly a score of nations, bringing in fresh men and equipment, taking out the wounded and sick and wrecked or worn-out equipment. Pusan's days & nights are noisy with the clatter of U.S. military traffic, ancient taxis, rachitic streetcars (some from Atlanta), and the snorting and lowing of oxen. In dry weather dust all but obscures the city's one traffic light, which is attended by a listless Korean cop. In wet weather the streets are covered by an evil black slime. Sailors...
...should carillonneurs hold a convention? Campanology is a lonely profession. The performer sits in his enclosed cubicle and may pound until he pants, but he rarely hears much more than a jumble of overtones, mixed with the clatter of the levers. Moreover, there are only 79 carillons in North America (eight of them in Canada), so performers rarely have a chance to compare notes. In Mariemont, a suburb of Cincinnati, guildmen wasted only an hour on formalities, got down to business in a hurry; for the best part of three days they took turns at keyboards in the vicinity while...
...news fell with a startling clatter into the delicate diplomatic machinery of the allies. Russia naturally wants what France proposes: around a conference table it could postpone, perhaps even block, ratification of the West German peace contract and the European Army treaty. Without advance warning to Britain or the U.S., the French had seriously endangered the Allied position. Irritated State Department policymakers, set upon by reporters, squeezed out guarded and anonymous expressions of chagrin...
Rector Wolfgang Trillhaas was with the students, but he was not sure that he approved. "Personally," said Trillhaas over the clatter of steins, "I remain against these customs. But as long as you do not disturb the normal routine of university life, I am prepared to tolerate them." The fact was that Rector Trillhaas did not have much choice. With or without official sanction, the Burschenschajten were once again flourishing all over Western Germany...