Word: clinks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...land were the people with market baskets. As they went to the stores this week, retail prices were spotty, but some were down: bread, down 1? a loaf; bacon, down 10? a pound, flour, down 16? to 17? a 25-lb. bag. These were only pennies, but the clink of falling pennies was music in housewives' ears...
Goring's art expert, a Berlin dealer named Walter Andreas Hofer, stored the offering in the salt mine where the Allies found it. They found Hofer too, and clapped him in jail. For most of the first year of the occupation, Hofer spent his nights in the clink and his days in a Munich art dump, identifying loot. Hofer's filing-cabinet memory for paintings, and his willingness to remember, helped win freedom for him and restitution for Italy...
...streets were dark because Hamburg has no coal for street lighting. In front of one house, shabby passers-by gaped up at the brightly lighted windows, listened to tinny dance music, shrill voices and the clink of glasses that drifted out into the summer night...
...Harm in Trying. In Jonesboro, Ark., Jailbreaker Paul Hutsell was promptly put back in the clink when he walked into the police station, applied for a job on the force...
Bobby Locke liked the clink of Yankee dollars, and made no secret of it. He scolded galleryites who took pictures, and his cap-tipping became an automatic gesture. Said easygoing Golfer Sammy Snead: "He's O.K. ... he just wants to make a million dollars." When one newsman approached Locke for an interview, he was told: "If it's anything instructional, old boy, I'm afraid I'll have to charge you for it. Sorry, but that's the way it is." For $100 he would talk...