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Word: clink (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although the hordes of college students bring lots of money into Ft. Lauderdale, the clink of the cash register is often accompanied by the crash of breaking glass...

Author: By Charles P. Kempf, | Title: Beaches, Beer and Bathing Suits | 3/25/1988 | See Source »

...tentative wide-ranging agreements reached at the Reykjavik summit last year. Yet the Soviets have long pursued a tactic of linking and unlinking and then relinking SDI to other agreements; the idea is sure to come back to haunt a START agreement before the two leaders can clink glasses again in Moscow next year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Spirit Of Washington | 12/21/1987 | See Source »

...every other book Hume ever wrote; don't just say "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 pseudofacts...

Author: By A Grader, | Title: A Grader's Response | 8/18/1987 | See Source »

...execution in exchange for a hundred crown dower. The woman in question is is Elsie Maynard (Michelle French), a traveling minstrelette who does the country fair circuit with jestering partner Jack Point (Peter F. Miller). Point hopes someday to marry Elsie, but agrees to the scheme after hearing the clink of the hundred crowns...

Author: By Jess M. Bravin, | Title: A Little Nice Music | 4/18/1986 | See Source »

...Clink, clink, clink. My fellow champagne makers, may I have your attention? Let us raise our glasses to 1984, the best year in our history, and to the U.S. consumer, who has developed a passion for our product! Our noble wine has now become mother's milk for yuppies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Corks Are Apoppin' | 12/31/1984 | See Source »

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