Word: handclap
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...United States. But the war was fought there . . . and the reaction is normal." In deed neutralism is a normal response, and it is here that Brinton's ebullient optimism goes flat; the United States cannot bank on European gratitude or support when its popularity rating is barely a polite handclap...
...memory." Then the four fiddlers of the Griller String Quartet played "Consummatum Est" from Haydn's Seven Words of Christ on the Cross; they played it with such intensity, and with so taut a rein on their emotion, that there was not even one absent-minded handclap from the 900 listeners...
Joseph Conn is a radio fan, but he hates commercials. He has his own way of dodging them. Whenever he feels a commercial coming, he turns off his set by merely clapping his hands. Another handclap starts his radio blaring again when he thinks the plug is ended. A "commercial eradicator," which Conn invented, does the trick...
...crashed on the railway tracks 2,500 feet away. Parts of a freight train were picked up seven miles away. There was not a whole pane of glass within five miles of Neunkirchen. An hour later when a filling station blew up it seemed no louder than a handclap...
...intent was apparently to conciliate the Right, which opposes Germany's entrance into the League until more concessions have been extracted from the Allies. He succeeded so badly that he was hissed and booed from both the Right and the Left, and received not so much as a single handclap from the Centre, which comprises his "Little Coalition...