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Word: dinged (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this year, Cleary's doorbell went "Ding,dong" and there stood Kevan Melrose, a 5-ft.,10-in., 205-lb. transfer from North Dakota.Melrose makes a Mack Truck look like a Tonka...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: When Badder is Better | 12/2/1987 | See Source »

...greeted Gaddafi's latest setbacks with unconcealed glee. "We basically jump for joy every time the Chadians ding the Libyans," said a U.S. official. State Department Spokesman Charles Redman asserted that "Libya has illegally occupied Chad for a number of years" and is believed to have up to 5,000 troops in the country, mostly in the Aozou Strip. The Reagan Administration has provided $33 million in military aid to Chad over the past ten months and last week was considering a new request for antiaircraft Stinger missiles. The White House hopes that Libya's losses in the war will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Disputes Raiders of the Armed Toyotas | 9/21/1987 | See Source »

...Objectvely, the student demonstrators are good for reformers in the Party because the reformers can say, `Look. If we don't do more about political reform, the students and the general public will resist our administration. They will reject cooperation with the government," says Ding Xuelian, a sociology graduate student who was a Red Guard during China's decade-long Cultural Revolution...

Author: By Allison L. Jernow, | Title: MARCHING IN THE STREETS: | 1/12/1987 | See Source »

...Ding says he is not surprised by the eruption of student protest at this time. According to him, the current political climate is ideal for students to voice demands...

Author: By Allison L. Jernow, | Title: MARCHING IN THE STREETS: | 1/12/1987 | See Source »

...first time in the current wave of protests that the authorities had arrested students. Reaction from their campus compatriots was not long in coming. Thursday evening, some 3,000 students gathered in front of the home of Peking University President Ding Shisun, demanding that he intercede on behalf of the detainees, who they claimed were 24 in number. Speaking through a megaphone, Ding promised to seek their release. But the crowd was in no mood to disperse, despite subzero temperatures and a fresh two-inch snowfall. Instead, it picked up additional demonstrators in a march through the campus and from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China: More Wintry Days of Discontent | 1/12/1987 | See Source »

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