Word: dini
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stake is economic: 60% of its foreign trade moves via Djibouti's deepwater port; a rickety, 60-year-old railroad connects it with Addis Ababa. Both countries deny any annexation designs, but neither trusts the other's disclaimers. Nor do Djibouti's new rulers. Says Ahmed Dini, 45, president of the newly elected National Assembly: "The Somalis and Ethiopians are at swords' points now, but what is to prevent them some day from getting together and carving us up?" Last month Somalia-supported guerrillas operating inside southern Ethiopia blew up the Addis-Djibouti rail line...
Harry (Matthew Cowles) and Tim (Timothy Meyers) are an inseparable pair of macho punks always on the make for an easy sexual score. Marie (Lind say Grouse) and Sheila (Carole Monfer-dini) are a pair of lazily provocative talk-teasers who would have movie-mag fantasies of love if they were quite up to reading movie mags. Think of the Snopeses as swinging singles and you will get a fairly exact impression of the mentalities involved...
Tiny bumps rose and flaked the paint away, speck by speck. Veteran Restorer Dino Dini, 61, called in a chemist from the University of Florence named Enzo Ferroni, who discovered that the crystal growth was caused by lime, or calcium carbonate, turning into calcium sulphate. It took a year to find an ammonia solution that would turn the crystals back into calcium carbonate again. Impregnating a postcard-size sheet of Japanese rice paper with the solution and backing the paper with wood pulp, Dini and an assistant pressed each little rice-paper block for five minutes on the surface...
...thousands of tiny craters were filled in with water-soluble paint-purposely duller in tone than the original hues, so that the restoration would be distinguishable to the trained eye. Exulted Dini last month, after nearly six years' work in San Marco: "Look how Fra Angelico's colors have come forth again. They are so much purer, so much more brilliant...
...Dini Zulu, chairman of the African Liberation Support Committee's local organization said that the recent publicity of the reported mass murders in Mozambique provides a "graphic expression of Portuguese oppression in Africa" and that the committee is trying to tie the alleged massacre to their call for a boycott of Polaroid, Gulf, and all freeze dried coffee, a product that provides most of the income for Portuguese settlers in Africa...