Word: dins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Streets are filled with the dead and dying, their moans drowned by the ceaseless thunder of the exploding shells. Somehow, a voice rises above the din, proclaiming, 'I can hear myself dying.' Said one resident of the strife-torn city who has vowed never to return: I shall pray for those who are fighting. Prayer is the only hope that they have left...
...Karachi, two armed men rode up to the Iraqi consulate general aboard a motorcycle. One of the two was bayoneted by a Pakistani policeman. The other, captured after a brief shootout, confessed that he had been sent from Beirut to murder Consul General Naji Zain Din and had picked up his weapon and instructions from Palestinians in Pakistan...
Aside from the dull, in candescent glow of his Woolworth's lamp, Bobby's color T.V. was the only light in his living room. It sent a stupifying green-purple din into his soul, increasing his sense of urban isolation and loneliness. He couldn't find any women who would go out with him that evening, and his buddies were probably whooping it up in the backs of their pickups (or so he thought). But Bobby had his color T.V. and Ken Harrelson and Dick Stockton, and with Rick Burleson up against Ron Guidry, the count...
...subway and before us sprawled an acre of parking lot in the middle of which rose a vast stadium. Entering Wonderland evokes vague sensations of a military concentration camp. The building is surrounded by barbed wire, and the sound of dogs barking makes quite a din. The only things lacking are searchlights and watchtowers...
...wilderness of newspaper classifieds, riddled with bait-and-switch ads for apartments that were just rented, sorry. There is the patient wait for the quarry, an exercise in stealth, timing and cunning. Finally-if the hunter is lucky-there is what appears to be the target: lg studio, din. area, dressrm, window, kit. D/W, so expo. Then comes the price for bagging what is really a one-room flat: perhaps $350, plus another $350 security, plus maybe another $350 to a rental agent for finding the place. No kids, dogs, cats, Venus's-flytraps or wild parties, please...