Word: clattering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...deceptively casual attitude toward "poop" (planning and paper work). When training in the desert for the Ploesti raid Colonel Ted used old five-gallon oilcans for filing cabinets. One day he startled the office staff by striding in with three cans, dropping them on the floor with a vast clatter, and saying simply, "There's the poop...
...toward the eleven o'clock angle could I spot the tiny black speck moving toward us. Quickly it became a plane with wings, bigger & bigger, then streaked out of sight to the left. The only sounds were the roar of the Fortress' engines and the shrill clatter of the .50-caliber machine guns. We clapped on our tin helmets. My knees felt as though someone had removed the bones...
Last week a wiser world searched the published proceedings of the 82nd Extraordinary Session for hints of military lunges to come. If Premier Hideki Tojo had plans for a Russian Pearl Harbor, the warning was drowned in the clatter of his windy generalities. Never had a Diet session commanded the airtime that Radio Tokyo devoted to this one. Yet never had there seemed less reason for calling the mummers to enact their pantomime. Said Tojo...
...worked hard to support his wife and four children, but never quite seemed to be out of debt. Not long ago he had borrowed $2,500 to spruce up his two-story frame house in the Blue Ridge foothills near Hillsboro, Va. A stonecrusher in a quarry, William Clatter-buck, 33, was powerfully built (240 lb.). He was kind and shy; he gave $5 a week to the Nazarene Church; he often carried candy to give to children as he walked down the street...
...Shubert flapdoodle. In 1934 and 1936 the Shuberts borrowed this lustrous title to some effect, but this time they have thrown it away on a completely lackluster show. Alternating undistinguished sketches with indistinguishable tunes, gaudy spectacles with soggy satire, young legs with old gags, handsome clothes with jitterbug clatter, it is just the Shuberts' old Winter Garden formula to cop the summer trade...