Word: clink
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Into the Clink. Though he could not act openly, he managed to work effectively through Buganda's tribal chiefs, who know that should democracy come, the traditional tribal hierarchy must go. The tribalists still dominate the Lukiko (Buganda's Parliament). On one pretext or another, Freddie's supporters went after the leaders of those newfangled political parties with their talk of popular elections. They ousted two party presidents from the Lukiko, even had National Congress Party Chairman Joseph Kiwanuka tossed into jail on the charge that he was plotting to assassinate the King. Last month the Lukiko...
...Khalil needs another twelve votes to muster a majority in the 173-man Parliament, and both sides were busy wooing adherents among the minor parties and independents. Said one cynical observer: "For the next few days, you won't be able to sleep around here for the clink of money...
...keep rioters from gathering. A shiny red truck whipped along one side of Plaza Bolivar spraying demonstrators with high-pressure streams of water colored with red dye, then circled the plaza of El Silencio, center of earlier riots. When the truck left there was silence, except for the clink of soldiers' bayonets. Then the noise of gunfire rattled across the deserted city, first from the northwest, where blocks of new middle-class apartments were going up, then closer to the colonial heart of the city as the rioters surged towards government headquarters...
...Maria's work will please the critics. M-G-M is gambling heavily that she will also make the grade with the joe who has the entertainment dollar in his pocket. A number of big producers, having put a cautious ear to the Schell, think they hear the clink of coin, and are shipping her scripts and making her offers. Moreover, some of the biggest acting names in the business-Gary Cooper, Gary Grant and others whom she will not name-are angling and wangling for Maria to be their leading lady...
...office Drapeau lent the city a new tone. By revamping the city's tax-assessment system, resourcefully tackling traffic congestion, establishing an arts council, tireless Jean Drapeau has convinced Montrealers that the mayor can be more than a circus ringmaster. And although glasses still clink in nightclubs until dawn, big-scale vice has been run out of business-with no evident harm to Montreal's lusty tourist trade or Drapeau's popularity. Says he: "Here in Montreal people used to think that prostitution was necessary to keep down the crime of rape. We found out that...