Word: jangledness
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The telephone atop Washington's airport control tower jangled, and a Texas drawl exhorted, "Damn it, I've got a Senator up there somewhere on Northwest's Flight 300. He's two hours overdue and I want him down quick. He's got to vote...
"Mortars started up again, but the Binh Xuyen fire was inaccurate. Nationalist reinforcements-a battalion of paratroops-moved expertly, strung out in single files along the boulevard, using the picturesque trees for cover. Scout cars zigzagged towards Binh Xuyen bunkers, slamming at them with 37-mm. cannon fire. Sirens howled...
Feeling on top of his job has given Ike the confidence to move-quietly. He has an aversion to stirring up unnecessary national crises, has deliberately tried to soothe the nation's nervous system-left jangled and jumpy by an unbroken procession of Truman crises. For example, Ike takes...
What was new in all this, aside from its frenetic ingenuity, and what struck the public most, was the music. It hopped, it jangled, it twitched, it plankety-planked, and from that day forward was known as "Mickey Mouse Music"-an exquisite melding of bad honky-tonk and good rattletrap...
Last week business was thriving in the Ten Million's Manhattan headquarters-four small rooms just off the lobby of the Roosevelt hotel. A big American flag spanned the wall of the reception room. Five telephones jangled constantly. Mail poured in. Greeting visitors to the headquarters offices was Rear...