Word: clattering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lost in the clatter of criticism was an important accomplishment. Lindsay, for all his idealism, was unable to end the strike, while the more pragmatic Rockefeller did just that. The Governor's intervention also led, if indirectly, to an orderly means of settlement. As the Governor's press secretary, Leslie Slote, claimed: "John Lindsay has won a victory of style. In the end, my guy will win the victory of substance...
...scene is unmistakably the old Ponderosa. As the Cartwright family digs in to defend the ranch against a band of rustlers, there is a clatter of hoofs. Suddenly one of the boys shouts: "Nie strzelaj, Hoss! To szeryf!" That's dubbed-in Polish for "Don't shoot, Hoss! It's the sheriff...
...tattered, canvas tents that once billowed across the South Lebanese val ley near Saida (modern Sidon) have long since rotted away, and in their place the residents of Ein el Hilweh have built a Mediterranean Hooverville of plaster-sided shacks whose tin roofs clatter in the chill winter wind. The Arabs who occupy the camp are Palestinian refugees, who were assigned their 25 flat, barren acres by the United Nations after the Israeli army had driven them from their homes in north ern Palestine. The first of the homeless arrived there in 1947 just before Christmas. As their numbers swelled...
BANJO rhythms, screams, screeching tires, shattering glass and the rattle of machine-gun bursts were among the strange and terrifying sounds that occasionally drowned out the soft clatter of typewriter keys in our New York editorial offices last week. Had someone run amuck? No, the uproar came from the tumultuous sound track of the movie Bonnie and Clyde, which Cinema Writer Stefan Kanfer was using as ''Music to Write a TIME Cover Story By." As the tape recorder next to his typewriter spun out its violent cues, Kanfer worked on, at times pulling on a rubber exerciser, occasionally...
...driving is generally out of the question. They take a taxi if they can afford and find one (increasingly difficult), or the subway-which, according to the city's design task force, is "probably the most squalid environment of the U.S., dank, dingily lit, fetid, raucous with screeching clatter." And savagely crowded at rush hour...