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Word: clack (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fact, I missed most of that ludicrous Mets victory. You see, one of my roommates purchased a pinball machine (an early sixties Gottlieb model called Olympics), and I'm becoming an addict. The thwack of cowhide against a Louisville Slugger just couldn't seem to compete with the clack of the free game as the shiny silver ball thanks and dings its way about a maze of gaudy bumpers and bizarre pictures...

Author: By William E. Stedman jr., | Title: Gamesmanship | 10/17/1973 | See Source »

...exhibit on journalism would be complete without the Teletype machines that clack out the latest events in news offices around the world. At the Luce Hall, visitors can not only monitor incoming bulletins; they are also invited to take home samples of the wire-service copy that will appear under tomorrow's headlines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: 284 Years of News | 5/7/1973 | See Source »

SATURDAY: Black Friday (1940) and The Clack Cat. (1941) Classic Horror's two features explore brain transplants with Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi and comic mayhem with Basil Rathbone and Broderick Crawford. CH.5...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: television | 4/26/1973 | See Source »

...entire Ranger unit that is attempting to rape the survivors of a napalm attack on a village. Pulling his carbine's trigger, he observes with curiosity the jerking marionette-like motions of his victims: "It never ceases to seem incongruous that real guns make only a vague clack rather than the bang and echo represented in movies," Receiving the Cross of Gallantry, he returns to the States...

Author: By Bruce E. Johnson, | Title: Beyond Cynicism War Games | 5/14/1971 | See Source »

...together-trains pumping commerce across the vast continental expanse, rattling and mournfully whistling through the prairie or small-town American nights with the promise of escape to the cities, of traveling on. For generations of Americans, the rhythm of trains has been part of their national memory, the clickety-clack of long journeys, the special sense of desolate silence that overwhelms the countryside when a train passes and disappears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Mournful Whistles | 5/10/1971 | See Source »

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