Hints and tips:
...In the evening, seated in a warm, wood-panelled recess, the satisfying “pli-plunk” of a lamp’s pull chain signals the start of a working night....
...Nearby, William Roberts’s 1923 painting “The Dance Club (The Jazz Party)” is one of several evocative artworks that depict social dancing between the wars....
...Columbia University has never forgotten the traumas of 1968, when it touched off hostilities with a plan to plunk a gym in a local park and admit its largely black and Hispanic neighbours through a back...
...But, eyes shut, you could have gauged the gap in quality simply by the sound the ball made: the gentle “plink” off Vinci’s racket and the heavy “plunk” from Williams....
...From the off, the champ’s racket made the sweeter sound: plink instead of plunk, no matter how hard he was hitting it....
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