Word: dins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mardi Gras is being celebrated this week on the small island of Contadora off the coast of Panama, and revelers move from one party to the next to the din of drumbeats. The mood seems auspicious for the resumption of negotiations on the Panama Canal. Never before in twelve years of off-again, on-again talks have U.S. and Panamanian negotiators been more confident of success. In their bungalow, overlooking a white sand beach where they occasionally swim and sun themselves, they are quickly getting down to basics. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance has been described as "eupeptic" over...
...Vertol, workers heard their president's shaken voice over the p. a. system: "This is Howard Stuverude speaking. I am extremely disappointed that we were not selected." Over a din of boos and hisses, one worker who felt that "disappointed" was too weak a description for his feelings, jeered, "Peanuts!" Recalls Union Leader Robert McHugh: "Instead of a Christmas celebration, it was more like a wake." Not so 150 miles north, in Stratford. Sikorsky President Gerald Tobias raced out of his office and hopped on an electric golf cart to tour the plant, shouting the news to machinists, assemblers...
...summer of 1972, Abu Daoud was given the most important assignment of his underground career. He was sent to Munich as an advanceman for the Black September terrorists who carried out the Olympic Games massacre. Traveling under the nom de guerre Sa'ad ad-Din Wali, he spent several weeks in Munich, securing and stashing guns and scouting the Israeli quarters in the Olympic Village. It is not clear whether he remained in the city for the attack on the village and the Shootout at a military airbase near Munich...
...gashouse gang grew rowdier as one reporter after another shoved in to yell questions over the din. This was, after all, no ordinary small-town election. Oh, I don't really care, said Billy 50 different ways. His most credible explanation: "I lost because I drink beer on Sundays and because I'm a Carter...
...banging and clanging got louder and louder, but Paul A. Cantor '66, assistant professor of English Literature, refused to be drowned out by the din. "I will not be stopped," he cried, continuing to lecture despite the noisy hubbub, like Demosthenes shouting against the waves...