Word: clink
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Bobby Locke liked the clink of Yankee dollars, and made no secret of it. He scolded galleryites who took pictures, and his cap-tipping became an automatic gesture. Said easygoing Golfer Sammy Snead: "He's O.K. ... he just wants to make a million dollars." When one newsman approached Locke for an interview, he was told: "If it's anything instructional, old boy, I'm afraid I'll have to charge you for it. Sorry, but that's the way it is." For $100 he would talk...
...passers-by, presumably of Scotch ancestry, heard the coppers clink and grovelled, they blistered digits on the wandering coins. The Yardlings grew bolder as the evening were on, and after several near misses, conked a man who carried three red pencils in his breast pocket...
...with family failure, local snobbery and a doomed love affair. Nothing more; but anyone could see that it was "well written," meaning that the writer had a pleased ear for U.S. speech; an effortless way of evoking familiar things "[the milkman's horse] casually shifted weight with a clink of steel shoes on the worn brick pavement of the street, and then heartily shook himself in his harness, perhaps to dislodge a fly far ahead of its season"; and the ability to spin out at his sardonic leisure a plot that became just sufficiently painful...
Commuters, he said, who were unlucky in the recent draw for Yard lodging, should not seek to evade parental supervision for truancy with hotel space in the Cambridge clink. They should, however, purchase a ticket from the friendly cop on the corner...
...Seat. In Paris, twice-escaped convict Matthew Spence went to the movies, sat down on a criminal investigation agent's lap, promptly went back in the clink...