Word: clink
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Oxford and Adelaide, then sat back and waited. Finally, last fortnight, he summoned his student body to a special meeting to break the news. The polished Mr. Peters, said he, would not be around any more. As a matter of fact, he was at that very moment in the clink...
...Saud. In the early days of his long reign, Ibn Saud's Moslem subjects were as dry as the sands they lived on, for such is the law of the Koran. Then the infidels came to tap the oil, and brought with them the other liquid. Soon the clink of glass against bottleneck began to be heard in the new man-made oases of the Saudi Arabian desert...
When Jane Russell, an ex-night club singer, and her husband (Vincent Price) arrive at Las Vegas, everything starts happening at once: the necklace disappears, a night-club owner is killed, Mr. Price gets thrown in the clink, Miss Russell is kidnapped, and before long ex-boy-friend Mature is playing cat-and-mouse with the kidnap car in a helicopter over the Nevada desert...
Lampoon--Bow, Street; 1, Bis; 2, Wit; 3, Joe Kerr; 4, Queue; 5, Dunce; 6, Fiend; 7, Clink Kerr; Stroke, Quigley; Cox, C. Oliver Iselin '49. Average height: 4 ft. 9 in. (with cox, 4 ft. 9 in). Average weight: 212 (with...
...psychologist as keen as any now writing in the U.S. Like most writers of unusual, not to say violent imagination, Thurber cannot always control it. There are passages in all his fairy tales (especially in The White Deer) so loaded with verbal gems-and costume jewelry too-that they clink...