Word: dinned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...patience was often tried to the breaking point, debonair, dignified District Judge Harold Medina let them go their long-winded way. But last week, with something of the air of a sleepless man shouting at 3 o'clock revelers, the judge finally called a halt to the din...
...press coop, Western Union operators bent low to hear the chatter of their instruments above the din. In St. Louis' jammed Kiel Auditorium last week, one of the noisiest collections of bells-cowbells, sleighbells, dinner bells-ever assembled under one roof was ringing the rafters. St. Louis rooters were doing their tintinnabulary best to help St. Louis University's basketball team (ranked No. 2 in the nation) to get revenge against arch-rival Oklahoma A. & M. (ranked...
...Din & Cries. Hours before the wedding, Romans by the thousands began to flock to the church. Unable to enter, they formed a solid, screaming mass from the Colosseum to Piazza Venezia. Invited guests had to push their way through sweating hordes, and became rumpled, bruised and angry. U.S. Ambassador James Clement Dunn nearly lost his coat. One man's finger was broken. Several women fainted...
Inside the church, the din and cries were so great that the words of the marriage ceremony could scarcely be heard in the fifth row. Roman oaths flew back & forth between displaced guests and uninvited rabble. The excitement spread to the guests. With sighs of ecstasy, they rose from their seats and pushed out into the aisles. Some of them even struggled with formally clad ushers who tried to push them back. During the ceremony a movie-man, seeking a close-up of the bride & bridegroom, rudely nudged aside elegant Monsignor William Hemmick, who was officiating...
...bald knoll in the Vosges-as the boys told it-Battery D fired the first salvo of the war for the green 35th Division. Promptly a German battery answered back. A Battery D sergeant yelled: "They got us bracketed. Every man for himself." Panic seized the Battery. Over the din came the voice of Battery D's prissy captain: "I'm gonna shoot the first son-of-a-bitch who leaves his gun." Battery D's artillerymen stuck to their guns...