Word: din
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dazed audience watched helplessly, the firemen made for the smoke-filled pit and came within a split second of dousing both crowd and orchestra. Shaw admitted to confusion. "As the smoke cleared and firemen in full asbestos regalia appeared, it became apparent that what I had mistaken in the din of battle as a premature entry of chimes was the smell-all, tell-all alarm that did not know its brass from the principal bass...
Clearly, however, Herbie's viewers had seen enough of me. I din't even get a gift-certificate or anything. So Herbie moved over to the Harvard dugout, finger at the ready to receive the word as to when he had to break for a commercial. His guest was Crimson mentor Loyal Park. "Well, you came a long way, and you had to win these two games, right? It was a great victory for the Crimson of Harvard over Penn here today...
...been universally condemned as a 20th century house of horror. Three men committed suicide there last year, and 46 others attempted it. Most of its inhabitants spend 14 hours a day confined to rooms that are not much larger than a closet. At midday, the noise level reaches the din of a subway station at rush hour. Yet the Tombs, Manhattan's gloomy House of Detention for Men, lives on: a crowded, understaffed, twelve-story abomination that in January gained the distinction of being declared unconstitutional in federal court. Confinement to the Tombs, said the court...
...begin to strike, commencing with a deep boom and running up to a high treble till the air is filled with the clashing of iron tongues... Little groups of students coming from the side streets hasten across the yard, bound for Memorial Hall, and in spite of the general din, fragments of their gay talk come clearly to the passers...
...working-class children born there a century ago died before the age of five. Under Manchester's pall of smoke, pale families shuffled away their lives between cotton mill and hovel. Bad air, bad food, bad laws, monotony and danger were the workers' common lot. The din of machinery was a ceaseless taunt that whatever skill remained in their hands was irrelevant...