Word: staccatos
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...wasn't for you folks, I'd be afraid way out here in the country." Heads turned. A voice came back: "I understand they hunt deer up here between Rows J and K." The answer was cut short by a hammering sound, hollow and staccato, like a hatchet assaulting an orange crate: The 21st Republican National Convention was gaveled to order...
...knew better than Ladenburg and Van Voorhis that radium poisoning rots flesh & bone, finally kills. Terrified they ripped off their clothes, wiped their skins with wet cotton. To find specks they could not see, they used an electrical radium detector of the sort that sets up a staccato clicking in the presence of radioactive emanations (TIME...
Booming along between 3,000 and 4,000 ft., the Sun Racer crossed the Alleghenies in a cold fog. Over the radiotelephone from the airport at Pittsburgh came reassuring word of good visibility below 1,700 ft. Pilot Ferguson listened to the staccato hum of the radio-beacon in his earphones, reported his position as ten miles east of Pittsburgh, said he was coming down to land. Nellie Granger poked her head into the pilot's cabin, asked him what time they would be down. Said Ferguson, "About 10:12." The hostess went aft, saw that the eleven passengers...
...fallen into the customary, neurotic madness of killers; everybody connected with his crime must be silenced before he can feel safe. Mio and Miriamne are hopelessly entangled in this web of social injustice and human madness and for them there is but one moment of ecstatic communion before the staccato beat of the machine gun snaps their bonds...
Technician. Behind a large desk in Washington's National Press Building sits Emil Hurja, calm, amiable, and utterly unmoved by the tides of politics. He never argues, never raises his voice. His only eloquence is a flat, staccato statement of what he considers to be fact. On the walls of his office hang twelve portraits of Andrew Jackson. The portraits are appropriate, for Emil Hurja went to Washington to apply modern business methods to political patronage. To distribute several hundred thousand jobs where they would do the most good for the Party, he established a model system of "political...