Word: clatters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Book of Common Prayer, the Rt. Rev. Karl Morgan Block, Episcopal Bishop of California, intoned the funeral service, without sermon or eulogy. At that moment, in the grimy office of the Examiner, a few blocks away, and in Hearst-papers across the land, typewriters and linotypes stilled their clatter, and for a few minutes the plants lay in silence. William Randolph Hearst had stopped the presses for the last time...
...frontier has new sounds: the hum and roar and clatter of powerful machines; for the sagebrush country around
...Jangle & Clatter. The news traversed Washington like an electric current. Telephones jangled and teletypes clattered. Limousines drew up before the State Department building and disgorged briefcase-toting diplomats of the 15 nations fighting, with the U.S., in Korea. In map-hung conference room 5105, where they had been meeting twice a week for months to be briefed on the progress of the war, the diplomats were briefed on the progress of the peace negotiations. On the same afternoon-Wednesday-President Truman summoned his National Security Council, including Secretary of State Dean Acheson, Secretary of Defense George Marshall and seven other...
...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...