Word: clattering
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...half a million. But as the black-clad protesters streamed into Hong Kong's Victoria Park last week, they would stop for a moment to stare at the slight, unprepossessing individual. Only when he lifted a megaphone, broadcasting a familiar voice whose Gatling-gun delivery epitomizes the staccato clatter of the Cantonese dialect, were they sure. For this was Wong Yuk-man, the phenomenally popular talk-radio host who had used his bully pulpit to incite one of the world's most politically docile populaces into marching for its future. For weeks, Wong, also known by his English appellation Raymond...
...Copy!” a reporter hollered across the clatter of The New York Times newsroom...
...foot, Soviet-built runway at Manas International Airport here, bringing him for the first time to his key base in the war on terror. The base is well on is way to becoming the central staging area for U.S. military operations in this part of the globe. Hammers clatter and saws whine across the post, dubbed Ganci Air Base after New York City Fire Chief Peter Ganci Jr., who died at the World Trade Center. Engineers are busy putting up housing for 2,000 troops, half of them American...
...Hockey spread beyond our room, as blockmates and neighbors wanted to know what all that noise was (someone thought we were “shooting small animals”). The constant clatter of plastic sticks on wood and our own cursing often carries on into the wee hours of the morning. I even brought Nok Hockey to the Crimson one night...
...befitting a company that forsook the plodding world of energy production for a high-flying life of the spread, trading, retailing and - it turns out - creative-accounting its way to Wall Street glory, the decline and fall of Enron has been a clatter of dominoes. The $1.2 billion hit from a shady partnership venture gone bad. The SEC investigation into how Enron hid massive amounts of debt off its books where Wall Street couldn't see it. The frantic talks with banks, creditors, and a suitor/savior, fellow Houston giant and erstwhile competitor Dynegy...