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Word: clink (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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When the air was finally clear of flying dancers, the audience rose and gave the performers the old Sol Hurok Opening Night Locomotive. The dancers applauded back with enthusiasm. The reviews glowed. Box offices along the company's 16-city cross-continent route rang to the clink of coin. As for Impresario Hurok himself, his restless eye was probably already roving the map of Russia that was included in the official program. A ballet troupe from Monchegorsk, perhaps? Or sword dancers from Pinsk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: No. 6 for Sol | 5/4/1962 | See Source »

...Nation office last week. When the manager refused to remove Kaunda's picture, off came their clothes. Buff naked, the strippers danced about and chanted: "Kaunda, Kaunda, Freedom now, cha cha cha." Local cops finally arrived, wrapped blankets around the freedom writhers and hustled them off to the clink...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Northern Rhodesia: The Freedom Writhers | 3/23/1962 | See Source »

Nonetheless, in Lower Manhattan's cobblestoned butter-and-egg wholesaling district, the cocky little National Stock Exchange made its debut amid the clink of champagne glasses and the clang of the trading gong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wall Street: Another Stock Exchange | 3/16/1962 | See Source »

...every other book Hume ever wrote; don't say just "Medieval cathedrals"--name nine. think of a few specific examples of "contemporary decadence," like Natalie Wood. If you can't come up with titles, try a few sharp metaphors of your own; they have at least the solid clink of pseudo-facts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Grader Replies | 1/26/1962 | See Source »

Bullshot & Zebra Skins. The biggest center of cooperative seclusion is Jamaica's north shore, which has half a dozen new subdivisions where the clink of cocktail glasses is heard from morning bullshot to evening brandy. At the Tryall estates, west of Montego Bay. an American couple who figure in the international set, Arthur W. Little Jr. and his wife Harriet, last year built a $200,000 home that features a patio made of 100-year-old bricks. Peter Arno nudes in the master bathroom, and zebra skins from an African safari...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Caribbean: Crowds in the Sun | 1/19/1962 | See Source »

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