Word: clangings
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...next night the Reds staged a furious counterattack, heralded by bugling, whistling, and the brazen clang of cymbals which dismally reminded the G.I.s of the surprise Chinese attack in early November. The South Koreans lost all of their ground north of Tokchon, and the town as well. Said a U.S. officer: "We can only assume that the R.O.K. II Corps [6th, 7th and 8th Divisions] disintegrated." The 1st Cavalry Division had to be rushed up to prevent a breakthrough. One company of the 25th Division was overrun ("There's damned little of that company left," the assistant division commander...
...latest Waltari should make the cash registers clang just as loudly as The Egyptian did. His publisher confidently predicts for The Adventurer a sale of "six figures in six weeks...
After a full hour of hallooing down empty corridors and stacks, the despairing undergraduate dialed KI 7-7600 by the light of a match. Within seconds after the man at the other end heard their tale, warning gongs inside Widener began to clang...
...strapping young bucks from Indian reservations had the time, the money, and the inclination to go off on a hard-drinking tear every now & again although federal law prohibits sale of liquor to Indians. One night last October, roaring drunk, the four got caught up in the wheeze and clang of Idaho's legal machinery and almost mangled...
...best seen after dark when great batteries of floodlights poured a spurious noontide over the rising, mile-long ramparts of fresh concrete. Listening to the clang and roar of machinery out in the blazing night, skeptics railed at the whole fantastic scene. Many were convinced that there would be small use for the dam's electricity, that only one generator -a little one-would be installed, and that the vast pile would be left, peeping away to itself down through the ages, like a stranded whale with a peanut whistle in its nose...