Word: din
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...industrial noise is harder on the nerves than the brain-battering din of riveting. In one department of Bell Aircraft Corp.'s huge B-29 plant near Marietta, Ga., dominated by the monstrous chatter of some 450 riveters, conversation has been by lipreading. The uproar has undoubtedly played a big part in the heavy turnover and absenteeism among the riveters, half of whom are women...
Last week a battered old hulk was towed into Sturgeon Bay, Wis., to the din of saluting tugboat whistles and cheering throngs along the shore. The ugly hulk was the 600-ft. ore freighter George M. Humphrey, rusty red from 15 months under water. Her pilothouse had been crushed and her funnel twisted by the winter ice; the ripping current had torn off layers of paint, left her rail in tatters and smashed in the bulkheads. But to all of Sturgeon Bay (pop. 5,439) and especially to stocky, blue-eyed Captain John Roen, she was as worthy...
...London the war's greatest concentration of flak guns destroyed some bombs, added to the nerve-racking din compounded by sirens, bells and other warning devices. The bombs continued to deliver death in wholesale lots: twelve in one row of shops, five in a row of dwellings. One bomb barely missed a U.S. Army headquarters, slightly wounded four WACs...
...Luck, Again. On the sunny after noon of June 1, the Anglo-American Air Force staked off a natural landing field for transport planes to take some 40 of us Allies to Italy. But on the following morn ing, the din of the fighting came closer, German stray shells dropped into the val ley, and we picked another natural field for June 2. No luck, again. Just as the tightlipped, bomb-scarred squadron leader was measuring off the new landing ground, machine guns burst out on a nearby hill and the order came, "Pokret." The Germans, guided by the Chetniks...
Beyond the din of jeep-ridden Algiers, in the airy Moorish hall of the foremost seminary for colonial jeunes filles, General Charles de Gaulle and his troubled colleagues of the French Committee of National Liberation debated the signs of an approaching catastrophe...