Word: din
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Exuberantly, waving placards, urged on by cheerleaders, the students snaked through Chungking's winding main street. No one stopped them, no one dispersed them. They blocked all traffic, engulfed even the coolie coal-and-water bearers, whose makeway cries of "Hai! Hai!" were lost in the din of shouting youngsters...
...first coach back of the engine, Alonzo Wilson, a New York City Negro, woke up to a nightmare of din and confusion. In one flashing instant before the lights went out he saw his wife and baby daughter crushed to death between seats that moved together like the jaws of a vise. Somehow, they were the only persons killed. But 23 were injured...
...sedate congressional committee room rang last week with the din of intercollegiate battle. The House Naval Affairs Committee, under the watchful eye of billiard-bald Chairman Carl Vinson, sat, looked and listened. Tiny, ancient, impoverished St. John's College was defending its 160-year-old campus against the predatory onslaught of its huge wealthy neighbor, the U.S. Naval Academy...
...what he calls an "author complex." In Whitehorse he was not particularly popular. ("I have never been popular. To be popular is to win the applause of people whose esteem is often not worth the winning.") His one social accomplishment was his recitation of Casey at the Bat, Gunga Din, The Face on the Barroom Floor...
Sixty-two hours after the first Jap offer the vigil, still continued. Then came the U.P.'s false report of final Jap surrender, and in the two minutes before it was denied a carnival din began. Firecrackers popped in Manhattan's Chinatown; searchlights swept the skies over Miami. Bonfires blazed in Pittsburgh...