Word: clanger
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Certain that the go ahead has been given. Civil and Al, perhaps the most valuable Buildings and Grounds employees at Harvard on this day, will tap the great church bell with a sledgehammer, producing the required "gay and cheerful tone" that an automatic clanger can not achieve...
...Durham bacon cake, caudle, flummery, ale jelly, Rissered haddie, Huntingdon fidget, Bucks bacon badger, star-gazey pie, slapjack, Bedfordshire clanger, Hindle wakes, bockings, jugged rabbit, Somerset rook pie, bog star, jellied eels, Burlington whimsey, pigs' pettitoes, Kingdom of Fife, limpet stovies, dressmaker tripe, Gooseberry Fool...
...clanger may be greater if a baby escapes obvious malformation from German measles even though his mother had the disease during pregnancy. If the baby appears normal and goes home from the hospital promptly, it is more likely that aunts and other relatives, along with the mother's friends in the childbearing age range, will drop in to coo over him. If any of them have not had German measles and happen to be at the beginning of pregnancy, a long-forgotten infection might start a whole new dangerous cycle...
Would the Chancellor flatly endorse Britain's entry into the Common Market? he demanded. Of course, Adenauer agreed blandly. Would Adenauer declare that NATO and close relations with the U.S. were the basis of Bonn's diplomacy? Naturally, smiled der Alte. Then came the clanger. Would Adenauer disassociate himself from De Gaulle's ideas of creating a Third Force between East and West? Snapped der Alte: Of course not, no need for it. De Gaulle had never even discussed such thoughts with him; besides, West Germany is opposed to such a policy...
...even he must have anticipated, Nikita's taxi-pool plan evoked no display of overwhelming enthusiasm from his subjects. And for all his usual adroitness, Khrushchev dropped a real clanger when he sniffed that, in the capitalist U.S., "People say: 'This is a lousy car, but at least it is my own.' " Parking problem or no parking problem, this is a statement that most Russians would clearly like to be able to make...