Word: clinkings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...swallow, could scarcely speak, but he had not forgotten how to receive such honors. He had his ceremonial Japanese robes (the haori-hakama) spread over the end of his bed. For six years his wife, the Countess Tet-suko Togo, had been bedridden with neuralgia. But at the clink of the Emperor's bottles she rose painfully to take her place beside her husband's wooden bed in a little room bare of all decoration but a print of Mount Fuji...
...modern France some garrison commanders punish with two days in "clink" a poilu found playing with a Yo-Yo, consider it a menace to discipline. Modern Yo-Yoing was launched in London by Baron Beaverbrook's Conservative Evening Standard which coached its readers in endless Yo-Yo tricks: "loops." "break-ways," "skinning the cat," "three-leaf clovers" and "Bow Bells." Most dangerous Yo-Yo maneuver is "around the world," in which the spinning top gyrates about its thrower's head in a circle which alternately widens and contracts...
...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...