Word: dins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nationalize Only Water. A barrage of left-wing demands for restoration of food subsidies, cuts in purchase taxes and a campaign for unrestricted wage rises bounced off the walls. Out of the din came the roar of bulky T.U.C. Vice Chairman Arthur Deakin. "What you're demanding, brothers," he cried, "is the economics of bedlam." Again the dissidents were voted down. The left-wing Amalgamated Engineering Union proposed a united campaign "for the early defeat and removal of the Tory government"-surely a natural undertaking for the body that gave birth to the Labor Party and represented the core...
...muffle the din of the Thermo-Nuclear Age, some British authors in the last 16 months have pulled the blanket of history over their heads and burrowed in the warm, dark bed of the past. H.F.M. Prescott's The Man on a Donkey was a skillfully done period piece about England under Henry VIII. In The Golden Hand, Edith Simon told a leisurely tale about an English cathedral town and the faith that sustained it (14th century). In The Little Emperors, Alfred Duggan made diverting entertainment out of the fall of the Roman Empire in Britain (sth century...
...humming din of the plant's control room last week, Premier Duplessis pressed a button to start a 45,000-h.p. generator. Nodding at it and the other big dynamo, he shouted to McCormick: "Do you think they produce more light than the Chicago Tribune?" The colonel chortled appreciatively. Later, at a banquet in the Manoir Comeau the Premier, himself a man who knows his own worth, told 215 guests: "We're somewhat alike, the colonel and I. We're both criticized, but we both do some good work...
Once, the sweep meant breaking up log jams with axes or dynamite. Today, logging's storybook excitement and din is again lost to unspectacular efficiency. If wood piles up behind rocks, or wanders high and dry up on the river bank. Jenssen will casually ignore it most of the summer. At length he will signal the gate-tenders of the great Gouin Reservoir at the St. Maurice's headwaters. Switches will be flicked. A flood of extra water will dissolve the jams and rush the beached wood along on its interrupted journey. Pushbutton logging is here to stay...
Finally, there should be some sort of vegetable. Chel Shar Din is a favorite of many. It consists of diced vegetables, such as celery, water chestnuts and bamboo shoot, mixed with bits of fried pork for flavor. Actually, though, any place of mixed greens will do admirably...