Word: dinned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hispanic onlookers shouted: "Do something for us! Help us! Speak to the people, not the press!" But as he tried to speak to the crowd, he was drowned out by obscenities and chants. The candidate grew angry. "What I'm trying to tell you," he shouted above the din, "is I can't do a damn thing for you if I'm not elected...
After the inaugural speeches ended, the computers started flashing in the fancy new trading room off Wall Street, and the voices of a hundred traders rose in a din. Thus last week the New York Futures Exchange opened for business as Manhattan's entry into the hottest form of commodity investment to come along in years: financial futures...
...middle of the din at N'jili International Airport outside Kinshasa, the capital of Zaïre, was Pope John Paul II. Occasionally mopping his brow with a handkerchief in the tropical humidity, he greeted President Mobutu Sese Seko and other dignitaries, then boarded an open Mercedes for the 15-mile motorcade into Kinshasa...
...moment was sweeter for the Americans than the last instant in the 4-3 hockey victory over the Soviets. The berserk din in the Olympic arena must have been dimly audible at the Canadian border 50 miles away. Anyone on the International Olympic Committee who thought that politics has nothing to do with the Games should have sampled the crowd's ear-splitting roar: "U.S.A.! U.S.A.! U.S.A.!" The feisty young American players began by raising their sticks toward the rafters in an eruption of glad amazement, and ended by arcing them into the cheering crowd for souvenirs...
Five minutes before the celebrations could begin, with the United States Olympic hockey team clinging to a tenuous 4-3 lead over the heavily-favored squad from the Soviet Union, coach Herb Brooks could be heard above the din of 8500 frenzied fans. "Play your game!" he shouted at his players, "Play your game...