Word: cluttering
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...walls buckled. Gulf coast beaches and roads were littered with poisonous water moccasins, blown and washed in from marshy offshore islands. Thousands of acres of sugar cane were flattened. Tidal waters flooded Louisiana's bayou country. New Orleans got a day-long battering which left it a-clutter with twisted autos, broken power lines, shattered windows...
...puts in a concentrated working day. Usually she is in her salon by 10 and works straight through, often without lunch, until 6. Her corner office is tiny (12 ft. by 15 ft.). Her desk has a bargain-basement clutter of sketches, snapshots and a teacup or two. For her big-spending customers, such as Mrs. E. F. Hutton, Mrs. Pierre du Pont and Mrs. James Van Alen, Sophie usually pops out of her office and plays salesgirl herself. She is quite a salesgirl, and can usually manage to charm the customers into wearing what she thinks they should. Before...
There are some pleasantly grim noises made by cathedral bells. Once in a while, especially when the second Mrs. Carroll begins to suspect what she is up against. audience spines register an authentic chill. But most of the show is a clutter of entrance & exit, about as dramatically arresting as a game of in & out the window...
...relatives of the late Thomas Alva Edison, hopeful of long-hidden scientific wonders, watched his son Charles open the inventor's old rolltop desk (it had been closed to the public since Edison's death in 1931). Inside, besides masses of notes crammed into pigeonholes; a clutter of zoo-odd vials and miscellaneous containers, a piece of vulcanized rubber, scraps of tinfoil, scraps of old cigars, packets of seeds, two biographies of Edison, a collection of smoking-room stories, a bottle of soda mints, a partly used bottle of mouthwash, a plug of chewing tobacco...
...Atlantic, the scope is generally blank except for "clutter" from nearby waves. The captain can order full speed through the soupiest weather. Obstacles are clearly visible long before they are dangerous...