Word: dinned
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...dirty with blockmates, many residents of the campus’ smallest house have learned to be truly comfortable in their own skin. “People talk about Adams House, but there I feel like you have to be weird and naked,” Guilianelli said, above the din of the grill’s television. “Here, you can just be naked, and we love you anyway...
...girls sporting what appeared to be J. Crew mounted the shuttle bemoaning “we just got played.” They stared wistfully out the window as 3 males walked away with another girl. Though the shuttle was alive with conversation, their chatter stood out above the din...probably because it was dipped in bright green envy. “Look at her lunging out there.” And yes, said anonymous female was writhing against her equally anonymous man-friend. But so were the hoardes of women at waiting impatiently at Johnston Gate. Always a popular...
...cough is today the sign of a misspent, rebellious youth, so will that tell-tale tumor behind your neck a half-century from now be the sign of a college career spent huddled outside the brick-and-ivy, talking loudly into your cell phone to be heard over the din of everyone else doing the same...
...warriors who believed they could hasten Christ's return by capturing Jerusalem. In fact, it is precisely because of those associations that Osama bin Laden refers to the U.S. not as "imperialists" or even "the Great Satan," but simply as "crusaders" - casting himself as a latter-day Salah el-Din (or Saladdin), the man who eventually drove the Christian occupiers from Jerusalem...
...din of arguing customers, harried workers, and whiny children, we heard the strains of a lilting melody. It was Barbara Streisand, there to comfort us with “Send in the Clowns.” We sighed, relaxed, and toughed it out until morning...