Word: clinking
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...operating room is silent except for the clink of instruments on the porcelain-topped table and the voice of the surgeon, muffled through a gauze mouth bandage, calling sharply for instruments. A bronchoscope, a long mirrored tube, is inserted in the patient's throat and a rod bearing a tiny electric light bulb dropped down. From the sidelines a slender figure muffled in gauze darts forward to squint for perhaps half a minute down the bronchoscope, then back to her sketching pad and color box to draw as quickly as possible the infected tonsils, the tumor, or whatever...
Building Socialism. As they read this program, socialites who used to clink cocktail and champagne glasses with Ambassador Davila in Washington recalled the eagerness with which he read, studied and talked about Soviet Russia-a hobby considered at the time mere well-bred eccentricity...
...idle newsmen were pitching pennies on the marble floor of a House Office Building hall outside the door of the Ways & Means Committee. On the other side of the door the committee, in executive session, was figuratively scratching its 24 heads over a billion-dollar tax bill. The cheery clink of coins on stone suddenly ceased when Harry Parker, the committee's grinning Negro messenger, opened the door and said, slowly: "Please, gen'men, will you-all stop that game? The sound of all that money annoys...
...Professor Demetrios Tselos of Princeton, Vice Consul Konstantine Konstandas. The guest of honor (who was unfortunately unable to be there because of a pressing engagement to wrestle in Toronto) was lion-chested Christopher Theophilus, more widely known as Jim Londos, world's heavyweight wrestling champion. High above the clink of coffee cups sounded the praises of Greek artists, poets, professors and diplomats, for their champion, his musical ability, his culture, his extensive library, his college education...
...darkened theatre, tired but happy in his working clothes (grey suit, blue shirt), he heard his opening night audience say just that. Next day he heard the critics say it, unanimously, vociferously. And then the paying audiences began saying it every night, with burst after burst of glad applause, clink after clink of hard dollars...