Word: din
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...expected din would "remind people that we have this Belt problem," Vellucci told the Council...
Swaying to the drums' rocking beat, a lithe young Negro named Junior Wells closes his eyes and pierces the nightclub's smoke and din with his rough-edged, throbbing baritone...
...lawyer screamed, "The police are trying to take away my client's documents!" It never recovered from that tone-setter. From then until adjournment at week's end, the hearing was marked by insults to the committee, vain posturings, ejections by force, arrests and an often unholy din from the audience of 400, many of them hirsute Vietnik types. For sheer summer madness, it set a standard that, hopefully, Washington will be hard put to duplicate...
Truth - the whole truth - is an inevitable casualty of any war, if only because it is often drowned in the din of combat or smothered by the demands of security. This is particularly so in a war as complex as that in Viet Nam, which has ignored most of the time-honored tenets of military experience. Last week the U.S. was exposed to a spate of assertions, contradictions and speculations about the Vietnamese war that illustrated both the strength of a democratic society and the frustration of searching for clear answers to elusive problems. From it all, one sobering message...
...industrial workers are not the only people who are literally being deafened by the din of the technological age, Dr. Aram Glorig, director of the Callier Hearing and Speech Center in Dallas, believes that most Americans are all too blissfully ignorant of the hearing hazards in everyday life. "I wear earplugs when I mow the lawn," he says. Country living, he contends, is just as hard on the hair nerves as city life. "Take a group of skeet shooters who have been at it for five or ten years; every single one has got a severe high-frequency loss." Glorig...