Word: clank
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pair go to Paris, where the father himself learns something about modern technique from a salesgirl in her teeens while an experienced woman of the world takes charge of the son's education. The mechanics of this upside-down situation run smoothly enough until near the end, when they clank to a stop with a rather sudden resolution...
Gloomy Surprise. As they do whenever an internal emergency requires, the Kremlin's leaders thus callously abandoned a foreign policy line that had scored considerable gains. With Molotov's words, the dovecote sound of Malenkov's "coexistence" and "good life" line gave way to the anvil clank of the old Stalinesque "tough" line. The first outside reaction was gloomy surprise. The London Stock Exchange dipped at the news. Columnist Stewart Alsop concluded that the Kremlin had made up its mind that "war is probable if not inevitable." Former Under Secretary of State Walter Bedell Smith, once Ambassador...
...promising start, and the new 20,000 Leagues, for all its mechanical clank and ponderousness, is something of a continuation. If Disney goes on at this rate, he will soon have compiled a film library of live-action legends to match his collection of animated fairy stories, and the one should be quite as suitable for periodic redistribution as the other...
...putting out to sea on a dramatic mission. It is the "navy" of the offshore oilmen, and never did stranger ships sail on more venturesome voyages. Some of the craft bristle with giant cranes; others grow forests of steel columns as tall as Douglas firs. All of them clank and roar with violent machinery. Alongside conventional ships built for more seemly duty, they look as clumsy as cassowaries splashing in a lake of swans...
Round Three. Snead, who had tried twelve times and failed to win the Open, jubilantly figured he had plumbed Oakmont's secret. In his best hillbilly drawl, Sam explained: "You gotta sneak up on these holes. Effen you clamber and clank up on 'em, they're liable to turn around and bite you." By the 45th hole, Snead had a one-stroke lead. But at the end of the round, Hogan, playing in his shirtsleeves now, had the lead back-by one stroke-with a 73 to Snead...