Word: clattering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...With a clatter and a racket and a fuss...
Noisy Man. Many a New Yorker found the news hard to believe, like the silence which follows the clatter of a rivet gun. In 32 years in public life, the Little Flower had been damned as a buffoon and a tyrant, praised as a great liberal and an exacting administrator. He had performed miracles of political acrobatics. But New Yorkers had grown to think of him not so much as a political force but as a manifestation of sound and movement-shrill, vehement, energetic and cacophonous, as oddly comforting as the roar of the subway and the bleat of taxi...
...armor, I'm sure the money-mad creators of fashion will once again create as we desire. I for one could not stand to see my lovely little wife turning blue as she gasped for air in a laced vise, nor would I enjoy the clank and clatter of new form-building pads as she tripped lightly by. Let the unshapely change their forms at will but I like my wife as is and prefer dresses that show...
...city in the U.S. has a more rattletrap public transportation system than Chicago. Its streetcars, owned by four different companies (all bankrupt) and operated by a fifth, are mostly high-riding "antediluvian arks." Wooden coaches of the McKinley era still clatter around the Loop's rickety elevated lines (also operated by a bankrupt company). On streetcars and El trains alike, lurching is continual, overcrowding chronic and wrecks frequent...
Avenida Ejercito Nacional, stretching out through Mexico City's glittery west side suburbs, is tree-shaded and quiet. One afternoon last week its peace dissolved in sounds familiar to every North American -the scream of braked tires, the clatter and bang of a rear-end collision. A sleek new Oldsmobile, with a pretty girl at the wheel, had smashed into a new Buick...