Word: clattering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Spanish dancers strum and stamp indignantly, looking furious at each other but, as Signor Kaye points out, looking even more furious at the floor. They clatter and glare, brandishing boots, tight pants, short jackets, scowls, and women. They seem to be fairly intact imports of the gypsy dancers who currently perform for American tourists in Spain, and for all their energy they are a typically tired vaudeville...
...just after the turn of the century, in the golden age of U.S. opera. On the stage of the Metropolitan the great Australian-born Soprano Nellie Melba was singing Marguerite's spinning-wheel aria in Gounod's Faust. In midphrase Nellie was interrupted by the clatter of half a dozen wax cylinders which smashed down one after the other from the fly floor high above the stage. There, in brown suit and wing collar, crouched a spidery little man over an Edison cylinder gramophone with a horn almost as big as he was. Although he lost the Melba...
Last week the clatter of hammers, the whine of saws, the growl of a tractor shattered the Pole's chill silence. Under the skilled hands of 24 U.S. Navy Seabees, a tiny community of six multihued polar huts was rising from the snow-the home, for many months to come, of 18 American scientists and Navymen...
...campus that greeted the band was green and silent, compared to leafy retreat of Cambridge. Even the Ivy was strugling against the cold and the silence was broken by the clatter of a beer can as it rolled down the flagstone walk-ways...
...evening last week the men of the Jordan border town of Kalkilya sat in cafes sipping coffee and playing backgammon. From Israel 400 yards to the west came the clatter of heavy vehicles and the flicker of headlights. A column of trucks lurched past the loungers. "Don't worry," an officer called out. "You won't get hurt. We're after the army." A moment later the street shook as the Israelis opened their attack on the big police fort on the other side of town. It was another Israeli reprisal raid, the fourth in a month...