Word: clank
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When the U.S. ran out of silver dol lars a year and a half ago, it meant only one thing for Nevada's gambling casinos: snake eyes. Gone were the traditional silver-dollar slot machines, the familiar clank of "cart wheels," the bulging pants pockets. At least until onetime Adman Joseph Segel came on the scene...
...steel industry, in one small area east of Chicago, is busy building enough new capacity to produce 71 million tons from basic oxygen furnaces and 15 million tons of sheet by 1966. In this atmosphere, it appears that Wall Street has been listening less to the hammer and clank of vigor than to the voices of doubt...
Mitey Master. What makes Carson click where others clank? Besides having a pleasant, offhand personality, he's on top of his show all the time. He can neatly put a restraining ring through the nose of a bore, guide and sharpen the performance of an amateur-like the girls' national skateboard champion who appeared last week. He is a first-rate ad-libber, and has apparently stored away every joke he ever heard...
newlyweds at Peabody Terrace period of doorless bedrooms, heating that clank, and noisy trash...
...still able to trouble the sleep. The three new ones are predictably grim, and well up to the author's average-one good, one excellent, one paltry. The collection as a whole is a reminder that Greene is one of those rare contemporary authors not ashamed to clank a chain, or a plot. Two of the best-both in the old lot-are built around identical twin brothers, and in each case the reader's considerable fear and trembling depend on the death of one brother. No young writer today would think of being so unsophisticated...