Word: dinned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Said one top party official: "Democrats standing in a circle shooting each other won't beat Reagan." If the Democrats have compelling alternatives to Reagan's policies, they were not able to present any in the din at Dartmouth...
Lebanon has a history of its own, an identity of its own and a destiny of its own. Our national heroes, such as Fakhr-al-Din II and Bashir the Great, ruled Lebanon from the 16th to the 19th century independent of Turkey. They made Lebanon a haven for persecuted minorities and flung open the doors to allow free cultural and economic relations with the West. The failure of the world to grasp this reality has harmed Lebanon...
Dapper and perhaps bemused, the guest of honor stood quietly through the welcoming din. Before him on the White House lawn, a fife-and-drum corps stepped loudly and flawlessly through its paces. In the distance, a knot of pro-Taiwanese demonstrators chanted protests against his presence. Thus in noisy, if peculiarly democratic fashion did the U.S. capital greet Chinese Premier Zhao Ziyang. Zhao, the highest-ranking Peking official ever to visit the U.S.,* had come to shore up a wobbly relationship. Said Zhao at the White House ceremony: "I come as a friendly envoy of the Chinese people...
...Force Base near Fort Bragg, N.C., four hours later, the returning troops were met by a banner-waving crowd. "Let no one tell you you're not in an Army of excellence, because you are excellent," shouted Deputy Under Secretary of the Army John W. Shannon over the din on the rain-drenched tarmac. President Reagan echoed the sentiment in a speech before the Congressional Medal of Honor Society in New York City: "Our days of weakness are over. Our military forces are back on their feet and standing tall...
...something of a middling radical. Speedboat (1976) blurred traditional narrative and character development with the authority of a French antinovel. But the book avoided the rigid aesthetic of a Robbe-Grillet with choice bits of old-fashioned storytelling. Anecdotes, conversations and apergus were presented as a highly refined traffic din emanating from cultural Manhattan. The selected fragments added up to a lasting impression of an oddly provincial city of small talk in narrow brownstones and desperate solipsisms on the even narrower couches of psychotherapists...