Word: clink
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fernando Ortiz Rubio, playboy son of rich ex-President Pascual Ortiz Rubio, was back in the clink again last week under the fanciest charge...
...between soldiers and sailors, there has been no roughhousing at the Canteen. But in case there is, it has the advice of the Army morale branch as to what to do: "Play The Star-Spangled Banner. The boys in uniform must stand at attention or get thrown in the clink...
Colonel Hilsman's first act when the war began was to throw 1,500 Japanese into the clink. When the Japs struck at Davao, first by an aerial assault and then by landing party, the news from Mindanao thinned out. All Manila could say was that "fighting continues." The Japanese were not fighting a silly, diffused battle for the Philippines. They were playing heavily on the assumption that they could wear down Philippine supply-especially of planes and ammunition-and strike hard before more could come from the mainland. In snatching Davao they were also going after a base...
This week Judge Joyce handed out sentences of a year-and-a-day to 16 months in the clink. Even if Minneapolis' Trotskyite mice should win their Supreme Court appeal, their nest had been broken...
...glamour boys are getting rare and yet they say you'll find them there At Yale, at Yale most any time (and oh, so near to Vassar) The clink of glasses greets you too, and after dark the long halloo And slightly fried woo-woo, woo-woo of wolves that ogle Vassar. --The Yale Dally News