Word: clatters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Thanks to him, radio reporters are now regularly present in Congress. Accusations that his reporting is "destructive" distress him. He says he is just using radio to cut red tape. When he is in town, his plush office at WOL is a loud and tangy chatterbox. The clatter-chatter was finally too much for the female occupant of the adjoining office. While the commentator was on tour, arrangements were rushed to equip his office with a soundproof door...
...Commando men were landlubbers, and "the clatter of a cruiser in a gale roused desire for the lowing of cattle; and the sort of chanting that the winds make to a cabin . . . evoked an appetite for the comfortable village noises that steal by night over a long quiet distance." Before dawn they found themselves off the coast of Norway, and "high above us, on the shelf of an incidental mountain, the lovely, unbelievable, almost-forgotten picture of a lit window . . . hung in the morning darkness. For two years we had not seen such a window." But while the men stared...
...Hurd, unable to forgive his wife her lover, took a mistress named Constance Field, whose letters are perhaps the best thing in the novel. They began with the noisome clatter, wit, self-love and tinny ribaldry of an avid young female intellectual. They moved toward maturity and then into a hell soon matched by the hell Authoress Howe constructs for her hero...
...banked steeply so that every gun in our flight could be trained on the machine-gun batteries, and then we let them have it. A flat, scarlet sheet of flame poured down from every turret, every gun of our planes. I could feel our ship rattling, re-echoing the clatter of the guns. Down below...
...Chicago, Chrysler Corp. was completing an airplane motor factory bigger than even famed Willow Run. (see p. 92). Three coastlines were now a-clatter with shipyards. (Henry J. Kaiser, who had never built a ship until 20 months ago, now has built 320.) And from Michigan, center of U.S. mass production, came another significant announcement: the Detroit area, which produced only $36 million worth of materiel before Pearl Harbor, had produced $1,100 million since...