Word: dinned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bells rang out from Westminster Abbey, St. Botolph's, Bishopsgate. The bells in the grey spires of Oxford sent their tumbling, brazen din across the countryside, and in ruined Coventry Cathedral the bells pealed from the tower, the only part of the structure intact...
...puffed, sweated and bled through a nerve-racking training course as much like real battle as live bullets and dynamite could make it. They had absorbed a good half of the shocks that unsettle even well-trained soldiers in their first few days of actual battle: racket and din of their own weapons, the heart-stopping confusion of a stream-crossing under fire, the never-ending struggle with barbed wire and booby traps...
...program's natural flow and fun springs very largely from the characters and voices of Joe and Pepe. They are neither professors, semanticists nor actors. Joe is huge, hugely bald Joel Grover Sayre, author (Rackety Rax, etc.), newspaperman (New York Herald Tribune, etc.), Hollywood scenarist (Gunga Din, etc.), scholar (Oxford, Heidelberg, etc.), a Midwesterner who looks like a transcendent ward boss and has also been described as a "wandering behemoth." Friend Pepe is black-haired, blue-eyed, impeccable Pedro Francisco Domecq, Vizconde de Almocaden, U.S. representative of his family's ancient (1730) Spanish sherry business, whose tart, fluent...
...Stalingrad. One night a fortnight ago the worn men of Major General Alexander Rodintsev's 13th Guards Division crouched in their holes in the northwest district of Stalingrad and listened to sudden thunderous cannonading. The din was their own artillery...
...ship got the works. The first attack came from on top. Sir, those boys were good. Our .50 calibers were hosing tracers into them and there was a helluva din. First thing I felt was an awful jolt on the control column. One of those German boys had plunked two cannon shells into the elevators and punched holes in the fabric big enough for a man to jump through. From then on the captain and I had to brace our feet against the column. That old ship wanted only to climb but we wanted to get down as fast...