Word: clack
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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...
...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...
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...
...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...
...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...