Word: clinked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this-plus 23 other arrests and two other interludes in the clink-were behind him. After such escapades, Bossy, three times mayor of Newburyport, hadn't been able to be re-elected since 1935, though he had tried six times...
...diplomatic colleagues find him chilly. He is on a first-name basis with such key officials as Dean Acheson, John Snyder, State's Assistant Secretary Jack Hickerson. With the more intellectual U.S. policymakers, e.g., Planner George Kennan, he spends long quiet evenings, far from the distracting clink of the cocktail glasses. Although he has deliberately thawed his manner-as part of his job of thawing U.S. dollars, Franks's conversation still reflects the icy clarity of his mind...
...club after 14 months in the Navy, Eddie Dyer was the new manager of the Cardinals. In Mexico, Jorge Pasquel was spending big money to lure U.S. big-leaguers into his Mexican Baseball League, and he was making the biggest eyes of all at the Cardinals. With the clink of gold, he signed up three of themf and he had the Adam's apple of a fourth bobbing like a pogo stick. The fourth man was Stan Musial...
...Penney who, having his sleep disturbed on his palatial Florida estate by a well-liquored cacophony from across the lagoon, had the notorious Al Capone tossed in the clink for disorderly conduct, which, in its legalistic twists & turns led ultimately to the conviction of Capone on a federal tax charge...
...gold-plated larynx. Under their high-pressure salesmanship, Gloria's voice soon belongs to a radio network, a gilded Manhattan nightclub and the admiring U.S. public. But Gloria is not easy to manage. She is finally the victim of a shooting scrape that lands Maureen in the clink and then in a fadeout clinch with Douglas. It is never made entirely clear what all the shooting is about...