Word: clank
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...applause. Later, she bemusedly recalled the contretemps that had built up to her monumental blank. "The programs were printed incorrectly. The weather was 90° and I could have died. They'd just painted my dressing room and my eyes were watering. And all of a sudden-clank!-I couldn't remember the song...
...rebellious elements in his own army and indirectly at the militant Buddhists. The clash began with the lightning predawn "invasion" of rebellious Danang by Vietnamese marines loyal to Premier Ky. Soon all the sound and fury of incipient civil war had enveloped the crucial northern base town: the clank of tank treads, the rattle of sniper fire, the sodden plop of tear-gas grenades, the sudden sky-shaking roar of strafing aircraft. Danang's chaotic clangor had its echoes in Saigon, where Buddhist demonstrators took fitfully to the streets-only to be dispersed by tough, green-clad riot cops...
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...