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Word: dingdong (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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What is the No. 1 foreign auto in the U.S.? Since 1975 the titleholder has been Japan's Toyota, but maybe not for much longer. After a dingdong sales battle, auto-industry experts forecast that by year's end, U.S. car buyers will have crowned another best-selling make. The new champion: Honda, a product from a company that little more than a decade ago was more famous for its motorcycles and motor scooters than for its automobiles. The spunky Japanese car manufacturer, which sold only 9,500 cars in the U.S. during its first season in 1971, expects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Honda in a Hurry | 9/8/1986 | See Source »

What does this show? That college humor, whose seminal form is the Harvard Band, serves a larger purpose than gratification of the perpetrators. The Hand proved that come what may on the gridiron. Harvard would cream the opposition at halftime. In a prosaic era of social pussyfooting and dingdong mentalities elsewhere the Band reminded us that Harvard was hard on the course of intellectual rigor. The Band even occasionally pricked our social conscience, but always our senses of tolerance and humor. Should the academic authorities to dickering here? I rather prefer your reported response of the Band's senior member...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Band Restraint | 10/24/1983 | See Source »

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