Word: clattering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sambiase, a town of 12,000 at the tip of the Italian boot, a chilly wind whispers under the doors. The townspeople stare at each other meaningfully as a lonely dog howls in the hills. Then, with a roar of auto engines and a clatter of hoofbeats, Sambiase blows wide open. Bullets spray in all directions; a hand grenade booms against the wall of the police station. For 40 minutes the town rocks to gunfire and explosions before the attack recedes. At last police arrive from a nearby town. Is anything wrong? No, say the townspeople, nothing. Can anyone identify...
...Hodgkin's orderly mind seems to thrive on a diet of clutter and clatter. After graduation from Oxford, when she went into research, her first lab was in a dingy basement under the university museum. It was her precarious exercise to climb a ladder to a gallery while carrying the delicate crystals with which she worked. But whatever the circumstances, she maintained an elegance of appearance and achievement. No distraction was enough to spoil the work that led to a thorough knowledge of the penicillin molecule, and to the discovery of the structure of Vitamin B12, the recalcitrant molecule...
...developed by the nonprofit Educational Research Corporation of Cambridge, relies on the programmed profiles of 2,850 schools that are stored in IBM machines. A-student marks his preferences (location, size, competitive standing, desired subjects) on a four-page booklet; the information is fed into the computer and out clatter the printed names of schools that match his demands. Average "print-out": between 20 and 30 colleges...
Lady Bird's accession to the White House did precipitate some clatter of dismay, however. "I suppose," cooed Nicole Alphand, wife of the French Ambassador to the U.S., "that now we will all have to learn to do zee bar-bee-cue." That has not yet become a problem, but Lady Bird has done her bit for zee folk music. Already a guitar-whacking bunch of folk singers called the New Christy Minstrels have entertained at a state dinner for Italy's President Segni, and Lady Bird recently capped a banquet for United Nations Secretary-General U Thant...
COCA-COLA. A clatter of rickshas and the chatter of Chinese start the visitor on a walk around the world: past a Hong Kong market to the Taj Mahal, on to the Bavarian Alps, through a Cambodian jungle, winding up on a cruise ship bobbing in Rio's harbor. Afterwards, thirsty voyagers can pause and refresh at Coke stands in the courtyard...