Word: gong
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Like a Gong. There was something exhilarating about his sheer brawn, whether he was swashing across the decks of the Bounty, or boxing with Spencer Tracy in San Francisco, or pouring the carafe of water over the Big Boss's head in The Hucksters. He often pioneered shock scenes. In Red Dust (1932) he discovered Jean Harlow bathing in a rain barrel, and in It Happened One Night (1934) he shared a tourist cabin with Claudette Colbert, their beds divided by a blanket stretched on a rope. In the same picture, when he took off his shirt and revealed...
...Shearer's face in A Free Soul (1931), he slapped into obsolescence the smooth and courtly Valentino school of hand-kissing elegance. "Perhaps," said Norma Shearer last week, "that was where Noel Coward got the idea for his line: 'Every woman should be hit regularly-like a gong.' And for that sort of thing it was Gable who made villains popular. Instead of the audience's wanting the good man to get the girl, they wanted the bad man to get the girl...
...point. Peering over one of his books in which he keeps his transactions, he stands at his Post 13 on the floor each day, surrounded by brokers clamoring to buy and sell. On a typical morning last week, he had to spend $81,600 at the opening gong to buy 1,200 shares of Brunswick stock at 68 that nobody wanted. Later in the day the stock rose to 68¾, and Coleman sold some. But if the stock had gone down, Coleman would still have had to buy. To even up the odds, the specialist has privileges. Among them...
...after day, tens of thousands of noisy marchers poured through the streets of Tokyo. Gong-clanging Buddhists snake-danced with plump bobby-soxers, tram drivers and dockworkers before the granite walls of the Diet; other thousands jammed the streets outside the U.S. embassy, stamping their feet and chanting rhythmically, "Ike don't come!" "Down with Kishi!" "Yankee go home...