Word: clanks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...audience. In robust defiance of the "pusher" (man with the blueprints), four steelworkers ride on the ball attached to the crane-hook. Only flaws in this extraordinary feat of artistic naturalism are that when the beams (actually wood) strike something they emit a hollow thump instead of a ringing clank, and that when the inevitable victim falls from the crane to his death, a ludicrous dummy is seen tumbling against the backdrop...
...dingy room in Manhattan's garment district last week a skilled knitting-machine operator, brought in by his employer, inspected a strange new device. He pushed a lever. The loom began to clank as tiny lights winked on a control box attached to the wall. Red, blue and yellow threads spun off their spools, were knitted into an intricately patterned fabric. The puzzled operator peered over, beneath and behind the row of darting needles, looking for a chain of perforated cards. There were no cards. Enthusiastic demonstrators of this new robot, called the Lefier machine, claimed that...
High words mixed with the clank of arms. Cried Governor Allen...
...warden of the North Carolina State Penitentiary at Raleigh to receive the commitment papers of burly Luke Lea and his tall, high-strung son Luke Jr., to change their names to Nos. 29,409 and 29,408, to make them Class B prisoners in vertically striped suits and to clank barred doors on their still jaunty backs...
...professor had been arguing previously that it is scarcely right for Poland to hold Vilna, since that city was ceded to Lithuania by treaty. Suddenly with a clank of his great sword, Marshal Pilsudski stomped to his feet, turned upon Dr. Valdemaras...