Word: clanks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Slot machines now clank in remote service stations. There are few towns so small that a housewife cannot take a pass at the dice for a dime. In Las Vegas and Reno, divorcees, cowhands, tourists and plain citizens crowd plush palaces where roulette wheels whir and stacked silver dollars gleam on green tables. Gamblers are Nevada's new bonanza kings. Wilbur ("Little Caesar") Clark, 37-year-old operator of Las Vegas' gaudy new Monte Carlo Casino, had only $2,200 in 1941. Now he owns a gambling palace, a hotel, four cocktail bars and two cardrooms; is part...
From the green-curtained voting booth came a clank of gears as the main control lever jerked irritably back & forth. Then a voice, familiar to all of the U.S. and to most of the world, spoke distinctly from behind the curtains: "The goddamned thing won't work...
...train child actors, but educates them and where classmates are apt to turn up of a morning with dyed hair or altered features. These Lds thought nothing of playing such parts in Arsenic as a pair of motherly old poisoners, a drama critic who loathes the theater, a clank who thinks he is Teddy Roosevelt, a killer who tries to look like Boris Karloff. Old hands at small-fry roles, as grown menaces the kids virtually never missed a cue muffed a line, threw away a laugh nor bungled a shudder. Down front a lot of their coevals were...
...With a clank of chains and the mingled aroma of voodoo incense and roasting human flesh, William Buehler Seabrook reveals a story of his life. It is sensational and apparently omits little but the spectacular chunks that went into Seabrook's earlier personal histories (Asylum, The Magic Island...
...Jerusalem gather at the Wailing Wall, all that remains of the Second Temple, to weep and pray for Zion. This year Tisha b'Av in Jerusalem was more solemn than ever, for there was scarcely a Jew who could not hear in imagination, above the ritual wails, the clank of Rommel's tanks...