Word: clinked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...usually no fan of the Big Three. "We're finally reaching the point with this model-year where you have a legitimate reason not to buy Japanese." Or, as a once skeptical test driver notes, citing a kind of bottom-line test: "The doors go clunk instead of clink...
...titles of every other book Hume wrote; don't just say Medieval cathedrals, name nine. Think up 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 at least have the solid clink of psuedofacts...
BINK! WHEN THE CALLAWAY GOLF CO.'S ULTRA-ENGINEERED Big Bertha driver connects with a common golf ball, the space-age sound is no auditory accident. Forget thwack or clink -- think of a high-performance computer firing up. The low- tech ball, meanwhile, has landed 20 to 30 yds. farther down the fairway than you expected. "I've played for 61 years," says 12-handicapper Thomas Dight, 76, a retired Long Island, New York, school superintendent who prowls the links all summer long in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire. "I've never seen anything like...
...titles of every other book Hume wrote; don't just say medieval cathedrals, name nine. Think up 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 at least have the solid clink of pseudofacts...
...haven't heard about Secret Santa at Kirkland, let me assure you that it is quite a production. The favorite gift: a skit engineered to embarass any self-respecting santee. Kirkland's famously well-lit dining hall fills up early and stays crowded. Every accidental clink of glass hushes the crowd in anticipation of another announcement. Some days the skits begin at five o'clock and don't stop until after seven. People sing, people dance, people ride each other like horses. It's a week-long festival for the talented and the aggressively untalented alike. Adams may have...