Word: dins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Three years ago, fat Fuad Serag el Din was one of Egypt's masters. He planted his bulk firmly behind a huge desk equipped with seven phones, four squawk-boxes, three fountain pens and a mound of specially rolled, bat-sized Havanas, and bossed the secret police as Interior Minister, the treasury as Finance Minister, and the nation's No.1 political party as secretary general of the Wafd...
Heaman disclosed that in a normal two-week period, the University consumes about 61,600 cups of coffee in the din-halls. At the normal rate of ten cents a cup this would cost...
...still had my hand firmly over the mouthpiece. "You kids get out of here!" I shouted. "Now about the total volume of sales, sir?" I asked the president, as I quickly lifted and replaced my hand over the mouthpiece, hoping that he didn't hear the din of battle in the background. By this time, the kids were not only in the room, they were running between my legs and Barbara was climbing my back to get on my shoulders. I dropped the notebook as I tried to pry her loose...
...cold tunnel into the Bowl as the Band swung into "Our Director"--the saucer-shaped bowl that gave Vag the uncomfortable sensation that he was watching the game from West Rock--the Blue flare some Yale freshman set off that smothered the Eli faus instead of the Crimson--the din when Hardy crashed into Molloy and Harvard went ahead 21-14--the sickening final minutes when Yale tied the ball game--the weird feeling Vag had driving to New York, not knowing whether to sing or Sulk...
...Tulip, a merry jibe at the more pretentious forms of historic motion picture. Louis XV wages lordly war across the screen, counting victory cheap if it costs but 10,000 lives. Villians are skewered on swords and hoist by powder kegs until the welkin rings. And amid the din of charging cavalry and ringing welkins, Lina Lollabridgia turns in the finest bit of provocative acting since Jean Harlow enticed Gable into lathering her back in Red Dust...