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Word: din (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Usage:

...Italian is advisable. But if you want to be sure of getting what you order, ask for spaghetti." In Leeds, the winner of a recent Yorkshire pudding baking contest turned out to be a Chinese cook who spoke no English and called the prize-winning dish shortska po din (because that is how it sounded to him). Native Yorkshiremen were enraged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Europe's Migrant Workers: Northward! | 6/8/1970 | See Source »

...waist and daubed in red and white grease paint, managed to get inside. They shouted demands that Chairman James H. Binger accept their nominations for directors. The Rev. William Grace, a United Presbyterian minister, damned the conduct of the meeting as "immoral, irregular and illegal." As the din continued, Binger announced that he was voting 88% of Honeywell's shares for the management slate of 14 directors. Replying to protests from the floor that others wanted to air their views, Binger snapped: "You've forfeited this right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Corporation Becomes a Target | 5/11/1970 | See Source »

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