Robert Fitzgerald, Inside State Plant Manager for the Alabama Telephone Company, was at the ATC central office serving Haleyville and actually observed the call pass through the switching gear as the mechanical equipment clunked out " 9-1-1 ".
32.
A few days later a box containing the spiral-bound, red-jacketed " Citizen's Independent Report " clunked against my door, and I made arrangements to take the red-eye flight into Dallas to meet the author.
33.
As boaters clunked their oars on the lake, Witold Rybczynski folded his big frame onto a little chair by a tiny cafe table at the boathouse and talked about how he came to write about the man who created Central Park almost a century and a half ago.
34.
Over the years, other Open champions have thrown the winning golf ball to the gallery around the 18th green, but after Stewart's ball clunked into the cup on that 15-foot putt, he grabbed it, kissed it and slipped it into his pocket.
35.
Actually, even that small but spectacularly useful Yiddish word, with its infinite capacity for inflection, won't suffice to register the proper dismay at " Jewtopia, " the slapdash, feeble-witted comedy that clunked open at the Westside Theater Downstairs on Thursday night.
36.
Over the last four years, Dodgers players were punished for brawling in the bleachers, a Royals first-base coach was attacked by two White Sox fans, Rangers outfielder Carl Everett was clunked in the head by a cell phone, and, in September, Texas reliever Frank Francisco bloodied the nose of woman when he whipped a chair into the stands.
37.
Had another Soviet leader been in power, one with no interest in reform, I see no reason that the USSR couldn't have clunked along as a regime of stagnation and horror for another fifty years ( which is why I give Gorbachev position of place here, with a strong mention to Yeltsin as well it is not at all inconceivable to me that harsher rulers could have repelled demands for reform in the way they did in the 1960s ).
