Word: rattletrap
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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. And then, of course, there was Mickey...
...Rattletrap. In Petaluma, Calif., garage mechanics examined David McClure's car after he complained of a "strange rattle," traced it to the back seat, where they found a rattlesnake poised to strike...
Stalin will protect the working girl, vow the Communists. Last week a pretty 21-year-old blonde, who with three men escaped from Poland to Sweden in a rattletrap plane (TIME, Aug. 13), told how he does...
When Cuba's President Carlos Prío Socarrás decided to scrap Havana's rattletrap trolleys in favor of buses, he thought he knew just the man for the job: tall, tough Millionaire William D. Pawley, 53. Boss of Miami's bus system, Pawley had organized Cuba's first commercial airline and built most of its airfields. Many Cubans regard him as a combination financial wizard and philanthropist...