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Word: dins (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Within such brackets of past and future, the United States will celebrate its 200th anniversary this weekend-a culminating moment of raucous blowout compounded of Disneyland pageantry and kitsch, perfervid oratory, sentiment and sentimentality, dissent, 10,000 miles of bunting, phalanxes of politicians and majorettes in a din of John Philip Sousa brass, and tons of fireworks splashing in the dazzled night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The Big 200th Bash | 7/5/1976 | See Source »

...din over busing revived, Ford astonishingly told Kentucky newsmen that the Justice Department had not decided where to intervene, that it might even be in Louisville, where an appeal is pending. When a Levi aide denied that Louisville had ever been under active consideration, the President's remark seemed to suggest that he was using the issue to gain political advantage in a crucial primary. Moreover, the Justice Department, trying to live down its Watergate-acquired reputation as a political extension of the White House, once again gave the impression of dancing to a presidential tune...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: Busing Battle Revives | 5/31/1976 | See Source »

Dean Robert Ebert of the Med School termed Davis's contention that the Med School has diminished din quality "irresponsible" and said each Harvard Medical School graduate--minority and otherwise--has successfully met the School's rigorous demands and has the confidence vote of the faculty...

Author: By Judith Kogan, | Title: Seven Days in May | 5/21/1976 | See Source »

About three miles out Bromwich caught sight of the Prudential and it was all down hill from there. The people at the end were constantly clapping, drawing each runner into its welcoming din. Bromwich finally joined the Boylston and Hereford Sts. crowd...

Author: By Richard J. Doherty, | Title: Harriers Hurdle Hills, Heat in Boston Marathon | 4/20/1976 | See Source »

...times. Before him, in the grand ballroom of Pittsburgh's Hilton Hotel, nearly 2,000 delegates to the annual Pennsylvania AFL-CIO convention exuberantly chanted: "We want Humphrey! We want Humphrey!" Four times during his speech he brought the crowd to its feet to cheer and applaud. The din even briefly drowned out his spirited attack on both the Ford Administration and on Democratic presidential candidates who have tried to make Washington an election issue. Said he: "The issue is not Washington, not Big Government, but the people in the Government. When...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: A Bitter Three Weeks Ahead | 4/19/1976 | See Source »

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