Toasters failed to pop and battle fleets on maneuvers drifted aimlessly on their dead propellers.
8 seconds sound clip from the The Day the Earth Stood Still (1954) classic radio play.
You can hear this line at 00:35:55 in the radio play.
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- All over the world, traffic stopped dead in a million streets.
- Here and there, a horse-drawn vehicle clopped its melancholy way among the motionless motors.
- Bicycles moved, before awe and the common desolation made the riders stop of their own free will.
- Electric clocks stopped on the dot of noon.
- All across the powered world, the machines stood still.
- Toasters failed to pop and battle fleets on maneuvers drifted aimlessly on their dead propellers.
- Joe Smith's milkshake didn't spin.
- And the humming turbines deep in Hoover Dam didn't produce current.
- Mrs. Housewife's washer stopped in the middle of its cycle.
- And electric lights went out all over the world.
- At a conference table in Washington, a hasty council of the armed services was held.
[...]
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