Word: clinkings
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...Premier continued to table-hop. At every table Chou would carefully clink his glass of Mao Tai, which he barely sipped, against the glass of each guest. One very striking young Ethiopian woman started to pull back her glass, reminding the Premier that he had already toasted her at another table. Chou's eyes stayed right on the beautiful lady and his glass kept moving forward until it clinked hers...
...toasts are a traditional exercise and Nixon makes the most of it. Seized by this emotional moment, Nixon visits each of the top tables, toasting each Chinese official with a clink, a touch of his glass to his lips. For the Americans there, it is a moving moment. There is the suspicion that the Chinese like it too. But who really knows? The night and the silence swallow everybody again. The visitors go back to their hotels in buses, passing shadowy figures on bicycles, a thin moon shining through the cold. Nixon goes off somewhere and that immense silence closes...
...deadpan eye, the camera faithfully recorded Premier Chou choosing choice tidbits for Dick and Pat, like some top-level guide on a Gray Lines tour of Chinatown. Later, when the meal and the speeches were over, the camera with equal fidelity observed the toasts and watched the Chief Executive clink glasses with what seemed like the entire Peking hierarchy. Yet the mixture of high and low, trivial and important, seemed right, and gave the whole affair that touch of verisimilitude that makes the fantastic real...
...flows raw into the River Tiber, or spend three months in jail for every day he fails to fulfill the order. Such a system, say city engineers, will cost $160 million and take at least five years to complete. Moans Mayor Darida: "I may have to go to the clink for 35 years" (a low estimate...
...President Nixon's eyes, we are still the defenders of "peace and freedom" abroad. We are still scrambling from firefight to firefight in a righteous struggle against those "great powers who have not yet abandoned their roles of world conquest." The Communist Monolith rides again, and the dominoes clink and totter on all sides; in Thailand, Indonesia, yes, even in the Philippines (only a few miles off shore). If you closed your eyes, you could hear Lyndon Johnson or John Foster Dulles...