Word: dinned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...past, now to be replaced mostly by steamed-up, middle-aged antics. When the two bands get together for a jam session, the four chandeliers have been known to shake and rattle while the music rolled. The bar tenders are so used to making themselves heard above the din that they shout even when talking to their wives at home, and they have developed an aptitude for lip reading to understand drink orders. As for the Metropole's manager, he sees a doctor once a week for a chronic headache. He can afford...
...cutting telegraph lines, tearing up railroad tracks, and on three occasions boldly attacking police and army patrols. Hopping about the troubled area in a helicopter, Algeria's Governor General Jacques Soustelle admitted: "The situation is serious." All week long in Paris, Premier Faure conferred worriedly amidst a din of newspaper alarm. For Morocco and Algeria he could offer only promises for the future, enforce stern measures for the present...
...bandits, in mustard-colored uniforms, who control both the brothels and the police of Saigon under a handy arrangement with the absentee chief of state, Bao Dai. Their commander, General Le Van Vien, was once a river pirate. Pronounced 'n go (as in come 'n go) din...
...charging patriot with an uppercut that sent him flying back into the stalls. One actress threw her shoe at the attackers. It was caught and thrown back at Poet W. B. Yeats, a director of the Irish national theater, who was vainly trying to make a speech in the din. Finally the Civic Guards had to be rushed in to clear the house of the embattled theater lovers and O'Casey haters...
...turkey costs housewives a few cents a pound more than the unstuffed one, but the Swansons soon hope to sell both birds at the same price, make money on the added weight of the stuffing. Next on the list of possibilities: a corned beef dinner and a ham steak din ner. Says Clarke Swanson: "Our plants are the kitchens of tomorrow. Fifteen years from now 50% of the space in stores will be for frozen foods...