Word: clang
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nonetheless, in Lower Manhattan's cobblestoned butter-and-egg wholesaling district, the cocky little National Stock Exchange made its debut amid the clink of champagne glasses and the clang of the trading gong...
...German Expressionist Emil Nolde, colors had a life of their own: "Weeping and laughing, hot and holy, like love songs and eroticism, like chants and magnificent chorales. Vibrating, they peal like silver bells and clang like bronze bells, proclaiming happiness, passion and love, soul, blood and death." The "sweetness, often sugariness" of Renoir and Monet was not to his harsher taste, and he complained bitterly in the years before World War II that "their art, because it meets popular taste, is elected darling of the world...
...speculation patrol visited Fedor and discovered why. For 25 years he had made each month some 50 pairs over his quota, peddled them on the side at premium prices. When he retired, he went into business on a big scale. He hired two workers, bought a stamping press (whose clang was drowned out by the nightly concerts). The police found hidden on his property 23 savings account books, gold and other valuables, discovered he owned two other houses, two motorcycles, two autos and a motorboat. Kuznetsov's total worth: some $200,000. His punishment: 15 years in prison...
...campus is an architectural hodgepodge dominated by a football arena seating 65,000. Drawing heavily on the state's population hub, it has 23 parking lots for 7,000 cars. Like lunch-bound auto workers, khaki-clad boys and white-sneakered girls spew out of classrooms to the clang of bells at 20 minutes past every hour, and since 1949 the sidewalks have been widened by four feet to keep people from butting each other into the shrubbery...
...College anomaly between comfort and hardship affects matters of discipline too. At first sight, University rules and regulations seem harsh indeed. College gates clang shut at midnight and the walls bristle with wicked spikes. By day, a Proctor prowls around the University hunting for transgressors. Since tradition forbids the Proctor to undertake personally the sordid business of making arrests, he is followed by several 'Bulldogs,' gentlemen who share three characteristics: they wear bowler hats, they look like gorillas (big chests, long arms) and they run like the wind. If the traffic is heavy--and in Oxford it usually...