Word: clanks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...innumerable differences of opinion. This year Idaho's Governor Len Jordan asked that the slots be banned statewide, and the fight spread to the legislature. The house finally agreed with him, and last week the state senate did so, too. At midnight of next December 31, the clank of the bandits will be stilled, and Idaho will begin trying to get back to normal again after its noisy and neon...
...Office of Price Stabilization was in the midst of grinding out a new price regulation last week when it got word of President Eisenhower's intention to bring an orderly end to all economic controls (except for rent and strategic materials controls). With an anguished clank, OPS and other control agencies shifted quickly into reverse, began to grind out new plans for orderly decontrols...
...back and argue around the issue. What the Council can do is to force a decision by polling the resident students. If they are willing to suffer a slight inconvenience for the sake of the commuters, then McNiff's dogged reasoning will have a very hollow clank...
...twelve disciples returning to Umbria in 1209 after receiving the Pope's blessing for their work. A succession of loosely linked episodes depicts Francis delivering his famous sermon to the birds; the tormented Francis embracing a leper in a moving, wordless scene punctuated only by the clank of the leper's warning clapper and Francis' sobs as he throws himself on the ground; zealous Friar Juniper cutting off a little pig's foot to make soup for a sick brother; Friar Juniper's selflessness triumphing over the bloody tyrant Nicolaio, and causing him to lift...
...almost imperceptibly, the merchants' movements assume a nervous, nearly furtive air. They start at the slightest sound--the clank of hoof on manhole, the raccous grate of a newly varnished sash, the quick scratch of a mongoose at a loose floorboard...