Word: dins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...exactly 10 o'clock each night Santiago's middle-class housewives emerge from their homes armed with empty pots and ladles. For 15 minutes they set up a metallic din that can be heard for blocks around-their way of protesting steadily worsening food shortages. Some mornings, people gather outside the Bernardo O'Higgins Military School and pelt cadets with wheat and rice, amid shouts of "Gallinas, gallinas!" (chickens, chickens), a gibe at the army's staunch refusal to oust President Salvador Allende Gossens...
Some Congressmen, including Frank Thompson (D-N.J.). admitted to being swayed by Daly's case. With the din of professional education lobbyists such as the American Council on Education and the American Association of Universities rising around House chambers, added to the frantic noises of private colleges, the arguments advanced by Daly won two showdowns by five vote margins. The colleges, at least private ones, were spared the trauma of sex-blind admissions...
Enraged Catholics. In Belfast's Rossnareen district, hundreds of children swarmed around three British Saladin armored cars, throwing rocks, bottles and homemade bombs. The Saracens careened through glass-littered streets, occasionally shooting rubber bullets from slits in their armor. Their arrival after nightfall was greeted by a din of children's warning whistles. Groups of women beat out tomtom rhythms with garbage cans to protest the army's presence-and the British failure to challenge the Protestant "nogo" areas set up by the militant Ulster Defense Association...
...alarm only added to the general din of the reawakening city. Besides the noise of heavy traffic, the guttural thrum of private generators and heavy-duty pumps resounded from every block as people attempted to bail out the last vestiges of their week-long baptism...
...Grace, and began promoting it. As performed first by the soloist, Pipe Major Tony Crease, then by the full band, the song is as unabashedly emotional as the sound of the pipers accompanying Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. on their march to the rescue in Gunga Din...