Word: clatters
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...minutes before the hour of doom in the north, told of the Russian strokes. One had breached the German lines only 24 miles from Berlin. Another had won the Seelow heights west of Küstrin. A great concentration of Cossack horsemen and tankmen was ready to gallop and clatter upon Berlin. An order of the day issued over Adolf Hitler's name shrilled that this was the last great attack...
Coal for France. The fall of Coblenz, headquarters of U.S. occupation after World War I, was only an incident in a swift clatter of events in the southern Rhineland. The Nazis had already lost the Rhineland north of the Moselle; now they were fast losing the rest of it, from Coblenz to the Karlsruhe corner. Soon the coal of the Saar would be flowing into fuel-starved France...
Enrico Caruso Jr., son of the late great tenor, took a late plunge into what he hopes will be a "serious singing career," and did it the hard way-amid the smoke, clatter and twirling bare legs of a Buffalo nightspot. One conscientious nightclub reporter, mindful of his duty toward an illustrious musical name, gravely noted in Tenor Caruso's version of the Flower Song from Carmen a tendency to "flat in the upper register." But everybody agreed, after hearing Caruso's What a Difference a Day Made, that his schmalz was terrific...
...sign and waved bravely. At dusk we came to a city. The buzz of the robombs was loud and clear over the hubbub of the traffic, and we saw a trail of red fire coming across the grey sky on the darkened city. It fell with a loud clatter and flames shot up and people ran hurriedly through the streets...
...into the air, and I noticed it was full of bits of tiles and glass and bricks so I dived again. There was dirt everywhere and a horrible smell like soot-maybe it was the explosive, but it smelled like rotten soot. And then, a long time later, the clatter of falling things...