Word: dinned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...representative of the Mindick Family Real Estate Interests in Boston's South End, and the representatives of the South End Tenants Council asked the Masachusetts Rabbinical Court of Justice, the Bet Din (House of Judgment) to adjudicate their disagreements, thinking this would be faster than civil litigation. The Ret Din agreed. The Jewish Advocate reported in its August 8, 1968 issue the August 5 signing of the final settlement: "It is the first time in U. S. history that a Rabbinical Court, normally concerned with interpretation of Jewish law, divorce cases, disputes between synagogues, religious functionaries, family counseling, has undertaken...
...people and country but now the news doesn't appear before page six in the papers and isn't even mentioned three or four days a week on the TV news. Mass indignation is rising against students rather than the government and about the only voices rising above the din are being articulated in bombs...
...depressed area of the Abruzzi Mountains because of the shrine of San Gabriele dell' Ad-dolorato, who is revered for his patience and submission to the will of superiors. On the saint's feast day, Feb, 21, the piazza in front of the shrine rings with the din of jukeboxes and shooting galleries and the cries of vendors selling rosaries and cold beer. Some 300,000 pilgrims yearly visit the shrine of St. Philomena in Mugnano del Cardinale, near Naples-even though Philomena was removed from the Catholic liturgical calendar...
THESE are the times that try men's souls, and they are likely to get much worse before they get better. It was not so long ago that the battle of the sexes was fought in gentle, rolling Thurber country. Now the din is in earnest, echoing from the streets where pickets gather, the bars where women once were barred, and even connubial beds, where ideology can intrude at the unconscious drop of a male chauvinist epithet. This week, marking the 50th anniversary of the proclamation of the 19th Amendment granting women the vote, the diffuse, divided, but grimly determined...
...festivities began a day ahead of time as early arrivals gathered in the Deep River Inn, a bar on Main Street, to shout greetings, swap tales and compare instruments above the din of indoor fifing. Drummers, however, are usually kind enough not to play their instruments indoors; instead they rattle their sticks on the Formica tabletops. Unlike contemporary bands, fifers and drummers shun all modern innovations. Calfskin heads are used on drums instead of plastic ones, and a system of rope and leather ears is utilized to keep the heads taut, rather than metal rods. The fife must...