Word: clank
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...little boy, over whose head he is warned by his attractive wife (Barbara Rush) that "martinis don't mix with s-e-x." "What's s-e-x?" inquires the youth. "Is it like Santa Claus?" Daddy, at any rate, is full of the Old Nick. Symbols clank as Douglas and Novak meet at a roadside inn called the Albatross. They drink martinis, and this time, after some moments of hesitation presumably to keep the film's moral tone above C-level, the cocktails mix just fine with...
There is a feudal clank to the title of Cameron Hawley's latest novel, and for a moment the startled bookshop browser may wonder whether this chronicler of corporate Lancelots has abandoned the executive suite for the ducal fortress. He has done no such thing, of course. The Lords are not border chiefs but a matrimonial amalgam-Lincoln and Maggie Lord, that is. Lincoln is an organization mandible-a tanned, nobly hewn jaw suspended six feet from the floor and usually worth $50,000 a year because it inspires respect and belief when it flaps, strikes fear when...
...want to kiss your clank eat your boom...
...With a clank of beer mugs, the four mountaineers tossed off a heady toast one night last summer and then sat down to plan their assault. They had picked a formidable foe: the continent's highest mountain, 20,320 ft. of rock, ice and swirling snow that Alaskan Indians call "the Great One." McKinley had been climbed 13 times since 1913, but never by the precipitous southern route, a feat considered the greatest pioneering climb remaining in North America...
...nowhere was once a quiet summer resort. Today the town has 5,000 year-round residents, two weekly newspapers, a radio station, and a busy branch of the Bank of America. Even in winter, a parade of chain-clad cars and as many as 30 Greyhound buses a day clank up the mountain road carrying the marks (Harrah refunds $6 of the $7.45 fare). Almost singlehanded, greying Bill Harrah has put the grey-flannel org man on top of a world that once belonged to the flashy lone wolf with fast fingers...