Word: clatterings
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...drove to headquarters for a briefing by the camp commander. Vietnamese Colonel Dang Van Son. During the rest of the morning, Harkins saw Vietnamese trainees make a sham attack with blank ammunition on a mock Viet Cong village and then repulse an attempted ambush by "guerrillas." Amid the clatter of machine guns and explosions of "noise" grenades, Harkins commented. "These guys are really good." In one of the final demonstrations, Ranger trainees plummeted down a wire from an 80-ft. tree, screaming "Rangers kill! Rangers kill...
...Tower of Babel had nothing on the modern cocktail party, whose disparate clatter and chatter has long fascinated linguists, novelists, sociologists and sound engineers-as well as the imbibers. Unconsciously, every cocktail-partygoer performs an unusual feat as he sips his gin amid the din: while carrying on his own dazzling conversation, he is able simultaneously to monitor the surrounding babble for such important items as the sound of his own name or a verbal pass at a lady friend. How does the human organism perform these intellectual gymnastics? Fascinated by what they call "the cocktail-party problem," two British...
...speak in Germany and was arrested and deported by the Gestapo. After the out break of World War II, Barth issued a flurry of powerful, evangelical epistles opposing Naziism. "The enterprise of Adolf Hitler," he wrote, "with all its clatter and fireworks, and all its cunning and dynamic energy, is the enterprise of an evil spirit, which is apparently allowed its freedom for a time in order to test our faith in the Resurrection of Jesus Christ...
...steady hum. "There should be an unobtrusive noise, constant and surflike," says Robert B. Newman, a partner in the Cambridge. Mass., acoustical engineering firm of Bolt, Beranek & Newman, Inc. Without it, the slightest sound can prove enormously distracting. Typical is the commuter who reads a book amid the accustomed clatter of the 5:42, yet is shaken out of bed when a robin chirps in the silence of a country morning...
...happy the rest of my life." Ah, but when he cannot be with her, she tastes the bitterness of what the ads call "borrowed love." One solitary Thanksgiving Day she calls home to Nebraska and, hearing all the dear familiar voices and the happy clatter in the kitchen, sobs into the phone: "S-save the w-wishbone...