Word: dinned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Twenty minutes later, Subhadra's cart shuddered on its way. At last, in a din of gongs and cymbals and a blaze of flags came the Lord of the Universe himself. The sound of praying paced the god's slow journey to his garden house, and before his passage people fell back in heaps...
Uive Kitzinger, politics don at Nuffield College, Oxford, provded a friendly foil for a summary of current Labour Party policies by Reg Prentice, a Labour MP. Both agreed that division of sentiment within the parties had caused the rapid quieting of the constitutional din following Suez...
...Congress has even lost much of its old control of the national purse, historically the basic and decisive power of Parliaments. In 1957's Battle of the Budget, Congress huffed and puffed about cutting, but when the din died away, the President's budget was only nicked and scratched...
Stick to It. Bush teaching is not always that simple; Frontier College instructors have had squabbles with union leaders and with management, sometimes have to roar out lessons above the din of a bunkhouse card game. One teacher told Principal Robinson last year: "Many times this summer I've hated your guts." But the school has few resignations. Most teachers, says Robinson, "stick to it no matter what. The result is respect...
...ninth straight month, consumer prices held steady in March at 123.7 of the 1947-49 index. This news from the Labor Department seemed proof enough that the U.S. is not in the grip of any new inflation, but it was almost drowned out last week in a rising din over the dangers of inflation ahead...