Word: din
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...exhibition hall. Among the garden's weightier new residents are Herbert Ferber's jangle-in-a-box Homage to Piranesi I and Alexander Calder's creeping Black Widow. More than ever, it is an oasis amidst city din, filled with spouting fountains and bronze genies...
...each office has a private bath, to a converted Wehrmacht barracks. Embassies are scattered from Cologne, 18 miles north of Bonn, to Rolandseck, ten miles south in the neighboring state of Rhineland Palatinate, where the Russians have taken over an old resort hotel. Chilean diplomats must work above the din of a five-and-dime store on the floor be low; the small, ugly British chancellery is smack in the middle of a cornfield, across the street from a Coca-Cola plant. New buildings, like the sprawling U.S. office complex known as the Pentabonn, have been cannily designed so that...
...could preserve the secrecy which traditionally surrounds its elections by telling electors in advance just the names of the one or two people they are to interview. It could prevent the interviews (ideally, din...
...crowd that jammed the tiny side-court gallery realized that Francis was hot. Packing the seats, leaning over the railings, hanging from steam pipes, and peering from underneath the seats, they had kept up a steady din rarely heard at a squash match. Now they became silent...
They were awakened by "an awful din-stones and clubs began crashing through the windows." Then, recalled 58-year-old Ruth Hege, a Baptist missionary from Ohio, "the men found us. They pulled us through the house, onto the porch." Her companion, Fellow Missionary Irene Ferrel, 42, from Idaho, was killed by an arrow. "I feigned that I was dead," said Missionary Hege. "Young men kicked me or grabbed me by the hair. Once a man came up and put his hand on my chest to see if I was really dead. The Lord calmed...