Word: staccatos
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...burned-out volcano, and although Milwaukee trembled, its authorities hammered down an iron lid that saved the city from massive hurt. Still, there was little peace in the nation's cities. From Providence, R.I., to Portland, Ore., communities large and small heard the sniper's staccato song, smelled the fire bomber's success, watched menacing crowds on the brink of becoming mindless mobs. The only consolation was that, compared with the agony of Newark and Detroit, last week's racial convulsions were more of a threat than a storm...
...leap from a high window," said Fireman Jacques Mesmans. Others, luckier, landed atop parked cars and escaped with bruises and broken bones. Amid the panic, the flames climbed to the roof, where bottles of butane gas for sale to campers sealed the building's fate with a staccato of explosions...
Donald Barthelme's work creates the impression that something miraculous happened to him overnight-as if, blind from birth, he could suddenly see, or, fluent only in Urdu, he abruptly grasped English entire. The result is quite an explosion, a staccato burst of verbal star shells, pinwheel phrases, cherry bombs of Joycean puns and wordplays. Such a book is Snow White, an amusingly refurbished fairy-tale novel of the absurd-as episodic and pointless as a slow-turning kaleidoscope, yet just as strangely affecting...
...that were known as Operations Crazy Horse, Austin 6, and Hawthorne II. Marshall, at 66 a retired brigadier who once was the youngest American company commander in World War I, viewed most of the terrain and some of the fighting himself, meticulously interviewed survivors and strategists to produce his staccato narrative...
...when rural schools are as much a target of Viet Cong grenades as American military encampments? More than 90 teachers have been slain by the V.C. and another 260 kidnaped since 1960, and many a classroom in the countryside has had its singsong language lessons abruptly interrupted by the staccato racket of a nearby Communist machine...