Word: clink
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Negro politicians meanwhile went anonymous threatening letters. Crump cops spread through Beale Avenue, raided poolrooms, restaurants, hustled vanloads of Negroes off to the clink...
...listen to their phonograph records attacking all "organized religion" (the Roman Catholic church in particular) as a racket. They disregard the law because they owe allegiance to "none but God." In school their children refuse to salute the flag, believing that it is a graven image. Last week into clink from Maine to Texas as alleged spies, radicals, fifth columnists and non-patriots bounced Bible-dizzy but patently sincere Jehovah's Witnesses. At Litchfield, 111., townsfolk mobbed a Witness motorcade, wrecked its cars. Police rushed 61 Witnesses to the city jail, then had to call for State policemen...
Facing two years in the clink. Merchant Ballew moved to close out his automobile and electric-appliance business. In the Memphis Democrat he took a quarter-page ad: "Yes, folks, it's true. I'm not going to be with you much longer! . . . For in a little while I'll be stripping sorghum and hoeing peas instead of peddling refrigerators and radios. ... I want to sell at least 25 new G. E.'s so I can leave some bean and potato money for the wife and children while I'm eating off of Uncle...
...drink the cool sweet wine And let our glasses clink...
Promptly a Washington, D. C. police sergeant arrested Mr. Pelley. Convicted in 1935 for transgressing North Carolina's "blue sky" security law, he was charged with violating his parole. After weekending in the clink, Mr. Pelley was released under a $2,500 bond, determined to fight extradition. The Dies Committee, wiping its collective brow, was glad to hear that Mr. Pelley had been removed...