Word: cluckings
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...serious vein, there is the calm, careworn father, his hand in groceries, his mind with God. There is the blunt, slangy, kindly matron who wants to marry everyone off; the professional matchmaker, with his human goldbricks and his spiel; the absurdly natty, paunchy, rich upstart. As they cluck, strut, brag, fib, fence, they have no great personal identity; they spill over indeed into caricature. But they boast a sort of tribal flesh; their pretenses and deprecations and denials are bequests from a world of hard competition to a world...
...goblin killers is the sea's own natural cacophony. Antisubmarine-warfare hands are trained to differentiate the sound of a sub from that of a destroyer or a rowboat. But they must also learn that a school of shrimp sounds like fish frying, that sea robins cluck, that the white whale creaks like the lid on Davy Jones's locker, that the eel makes a zizz like water on a hot stove, and the whistling, jocular porpoise makes enough noise to give any sonarman a headache. Most deceptive of all for Thach's sound detectives...
Next day, from the state capital at Topeka, came cluck-clucks from Democratic Governor George Docking. "I'm glad I don't live in Wichita." said he. "All this is embarrassing, particularly when we are trying to bring in new industries." The Wichita Eagle and the Beacon both called for Stevens' resignation. His Lebanese-American friends* rallied to his support. The old-time reformers suggested that the whole city commission-city manager form of government, pioneered by Wichita back in 1916, ought to be junked in favor of oldfashioned, relatively disciplined "partisan government...
...Oxford-educated Bandaranaike dryly: "I can't pronounce his name either. I don't know whether it should be pronounced 'Click' or 'Gluck' [correct: Gluck]. I shouldn't think it is pronounced in the latter manner because that rhymes with 'cluck...
Though a millionaire several times over, Picasso lives in the elegant villa like a wandering Okie. A flock of pigeons coo from the third-floor balcony, chickens cluck on the lawn, the goat is kept on the second floor. Significantly the one clear space in the house is around his easel, lit by a powerful electric lamp with triple reflectors, where he paints every day from 4 p.m. until after midnight with an old boxboard for a palette, sometimes knocking off two or three versions of a subject in a single session. Explains Picasso : "I am a Spaniard. Just...