Word: clank
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...With that bit of self-congratulatory humbug, Congress completed work on a budget that should have been finished three months earlier. For the second straight year, the legislators tossed all 13 appropriations bills into a massive single "continuing resolution" without which the Government would clank to a halt. This year's 2,300-page manuscript kept company with a "reconciliation bill" that detailed the tax hikes and spending cuts decreed by a White House-Congress summit last November to cut the deficit by some $76 billion over two years. Despite its elephantine size, the final product may have...
Thus Nicaraguans continue to kill one another, one side getting guns from Moscow, the other side from Washington. Meanwhile, the armored knights of the revolution continue to clank noisily in the halls of power, shouting anti-U.S. epithets. Only last month Tomas Borge, the powerful Interior Minister, told a gathering in Managua that the U.S. was the "enemy of humanity" and vowed never ending battle. As he spoke, several Sentinels of the People's Happiness, as the ministry's police are officially called, stared fixedly ahead...
...might glance around now and concede that while they are still among the good players, they are no longer the champions of the world. Even in intramural sports, Americans like to claim global title, though the baseball World Series has had a slightly tinny sound elsewhere and must positively clank in Cuba. At a true World Series in Pennsylvania last month, the Taiwanese Little Leaguers beat the home team as usual, but this time the score...
...character, has been at his job long enough to sound persuasively disillusioned. He describes working conditions in the prosecutor's offices: "In the summer we labor in jungle humidity, with the old window units rattling over the constant clamor of the telephones. In the winter the radiators spit and clank while the hint of darkness never seems to leave the daylight. Justice in the Middle West...
...tractors clank down the 200-yd.-long assembly line like gigantic metal insects: 7,500 tractors a month, 90,000 a year, all bearing the trademark Belarus MTZ. Brigades of young laborers clad in work clothes or jeans swarm over each monster, slipping front axles and gear boxes into place, bolting on metal casings, attaching three or four giant wheels...