Word: clattering
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...wasn't just the decline in tourism that whacked this city. Residents weren't going out, and many restaurants had to temporarily close their doors, lay off staff and hope that the virus was subdued before the beer went flat. Now the clatter of china and the clink of wineglasses can once more be heard around town at establishments like Vong, atop the Mandarin Oriental Hotel, and Kaetsu at the Grand Hyatt...
Some dawdle in the Square, stopping to listen to the rhythmic clatter of the Funk and Junk players in the Pit. Others pause to chat with friends or to browse the Coop’s bookshelves. The influx of mob makers blends seemlessly with the traffic of tourists and eccentrics that fills the Square each...
...noise you hear when the weather and the movies get hot--aside from the clatter of cash registers and the "Everything stinks" sighs of film critics--is the tumbling of actresses, as male stars push them aside and stride into big action films. Out of the way, ladies. Summer is men's work...
...ushered in to capture the photo-op were sent scrambling, backing up with such furry to get out of his way that one nearly clipped the first lady. Clearly the president's torn calf muscle is healing nicely. "Was that a tour?" joked a White House aide when the clatter was over...
...half a million. But as the black-clad protesters streamed into Hong Kong's Victoria Park last week, they would stop for a moment to stare at the slight, unprepossessing individual. Only when he lifted a megaphone, broadcasting a familiar voice whose Gatling-gun delivery epitomizes the staccato clatter of the Cantonese dialect, were they sure. For this was Wong Yuk-man, the phenomenally popular talk-radio host who had used his bully pulpit to incite one of the world's most politically docile populaces into marching for its future. For weeks, Wong, also known by his English appellation Raymond...