Word: dinned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Times Columnist James Reston to observe, "On these two subjects you have to pay attention, for he's an expert on both." The President's own pollster, Richard B. Wirthlin, samples opinions frequently to give Reagan a measure of American attitudes apart from what Wirthlin calls "the din and tumult represented by the press and pressure groups." Presumably these polls prompt conciliatory gestures like Reagan's appointment of Henry Kissinger. But, as a White House friend told Lou Harris, whatever accommodations Reagan makes on domestic issues, in foreign policy he does not use "a criterion of political...
...Babe Ruth era. For the sailing cognoscenti along the gilt-edged waterfront of Newport, R.I., an upset of such proportions is a very real possibility. Not in anything so plebeian as boxing or baseball, to be sure, but in the patrician world of yachting, where, over the din of clinking champagne glasses, the chitchat is about fears that the longest winning streak in sports is about to end. After 132 years, the U.S. could finally lose the America...
Rolf Sellge, senior vice president of Morgan Guaranty Trust Co., noticed it as a sharp rise in the din outside his office. Traders at the International Monetary Market in Chicago responded to it with arm waving and raucous bids. In financial offices around the world, tensions rose as the news flashed across video screens and was relayed in frantic telephone deals: the price of the U.S. dollar was surging to record levels. The dollar fetched 8.06 French francs at the start of the week, the highest rate in more than 60 years, and also commanded 2.68 deutsche marks, a nine...
...street corners, while the shouts of supporters assault the ears of those passing by. Japanese politicians have little choice but to woo votes with decibels: not only are television and newspaper ads forbiddingly expensive, but candidates are prohibited from making their pitches door to door. So deafening was the din during last June's campaign for seats to the Upper House that a Yokohama group called the Association of Sufferers from Noise urged citizens (quietly, of course) not to vote for those indulging in renko, the repeated chanting of political slogans and names...
...din of charge and countercharge it is sometimes hard to remember that this is a very large battle over very small sums. The bulk of the $115 million a week collected by N.C.C. member churches goes to good works, and even in the modest portion of the budgets dealing with political controversy, only a fraction goes to disputed causes. But Theologian Carl EH. Henry, an I.R.D. board member, observes, no doubt accurately, that many Protestants object to helping Marxists with even a single penny: "It's like virginity. You don't lose it in percentages...