Word: dinned
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...cavalry troopers, was down to five, alone, in a darkened Baghdad alley and cut off from help. One soldier was dead. Three others lay bleeding but still alive as fire from AK-47s rained down on the scrambling troopers. Company commander Captain Thomas Foley hollered orders above the din, desperately trying to stave off the attack while getting some kind of aid to his wounded men. One had lost a leg in the massive blast; two others were critically wounded. Grenades were lobbed down from houses and apartments above. Foley banded the survivors together to cover their fallen comrades...
...course was on my way back up the stairs, into the dreaded concourse where my coveted press pass might be revoked at any moment, the din of the first of a host of semi-anonymous Kerry apologists trickling through the doorways back into the hall...
...sprawling base 10 miles west of downtown Baghdad, Chiarelli commands seven brigades comprising 29,000 soldiers and several thousand humvees, Bradley vehicles and Abrams tanks. At any given time, several groups of vehicles are on patrol or conducting raids, raising a huge dust cloud and a god-awful din. The base abuts Baghdad's most hostile districts, Khadra, Ghazalia and Abu Ghraib, which makes it a target of almost daily mortar attacks. Those areas are known to harbor al-Qaeda cells and secret bombmaking factories...
...think there is a good diversity of high-quality student groups at Harvard and unfortunately a great lack of practice space,” said Jorian P. Schutz ’05, a member of the Din and Tonics...
...feel it…that’s right, left,” cooed our salsa dance instructor as he shook and shimmied his way across the hardwood floor at Sophia’s in Boston. It was hard enough to concentrate on his commands over the din of the pulsating Latin beat, and it was even harder with the added distraction of his pulsating Latin butt. Columbia native Johnny Giraldez, clad in formfitting trousers and a shirt with “Rebellious” scrawled across its back, served as our fearless leader as we attempted to master...