Word: honked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...machine had to be movable, but wheels were too unstable. Instead, it was given four massive feet on which it could be walked around like a mechanical dinosaur. Leak detectors were installed everywhere to watch for escaping hydrogen; 104 alarm circuits inside the machine flash lights, ring bells and honk horns at the slightest hint of trouble. In a serious emergency (e.g., the failure of the refrigeration system) the entire stock of liquid hydrogen can be dumped through a pipe down a canyon and into a spherical tank. If all precautions fail, a hydrogen explosion may not wreck the whole...
Every Monday evening at 10 p.m. on NBC, a honk that sounds as if it came from a goose with a bad head cold reverberates through the living rooms of America, and America listens-and watches. The Arthur Murray Party and its nasal, admittedly amateurish M.C., Kathryn Murray, have somehow waltzed into one of the top-rated spots on nighttime TV. Fortnight ago, after CBS had spent weeks advertising The Case of Dr. Mudd on Desilu Playhouse, CBS's Trendex was 18.7, the Party's a cozy...
...next time they slap me they'll have a knife." On the other hand, so few people are really grateful to him: "It's not that I need credit. But somewhere along the line the dog should be patted on the head." If some neighborhood toughs honk their horns outside his house to annoy him, he speaks of being "hounded by degenerates...
...play, and Sinatra does not dance a step in the film, but somehow he crowds the screen with rhythm every time he moves. Furthermore, he is a superb rhythm singer. Tense, rackety, jagged with energy, his rhythms pile up, break apart, flow and jolt with all the jeer and honk and curiously impersonal impulsiveness of rush-hour traffic. And nobody can turn a blue note green the way Frankie can−a green as sour and insolent as a pickle waved beneath the moviegoer's nose...
...Honk, Plonk. In Casteldaccia, Sicily, police had to rescue Bus Driver Paolo Alliotta, 33, from a mob of townsmen, who stoned him because he blew his horn to clear traffic, awoke them from their sidewalk naps...