Word: dins
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...look younger than his age, Marwan doesn't stand out in the streets of Iraq. Few would notice his one distinguishing feature: outsize hands, heavily callused from use of his favorite weapon, the Russian-made PKC machine gun. Even his distinctive Fallujah accent is not uncommon amid the din of the Iraqi capital, where suicide bombings are most frequent. According to an informant close to several insurgent groups and a U.S. official familiar with rebel operations, small and nondescript fighters like Marwan are considered ideal bombers, since they can slip into crowds without attracting attention. He came to the meeting...
...string of crises, real or imagined, to cause Inman to despair was rising outside his old haunt in Boston's Back Bay. "The Prudential Tower," he had told his diary, "is 28 stories into the sky, soon will be goosing God." He had fled to Brookline to escape the din of construction, taking with him the noises in his head, and now he was over the edge. "This is being horrible beyond the credible," he wrote on Dec. 5. "Twelve divisions of migraines." Then he killed himself...
...Grivnina to leave as Lomeiko began his briefing, she angrily refused, pointing out her credentials as a reporter for the weekly Dutch magazine Elseviers. Grivnina's shouts attracted a stampede of reporters. Lomeiko, fuming about "people who use this for their own purposes," could barely be heard above the din. "It's either this woman or it's me," he shouted. "I warn you!" Finally, Lomeiko stalked out of the room, but not before cameras had captured the scene for the evening news...
...Harvard Din and Tonics
...Then the Din & Tonics rushed the stage and presented Feldstein with a large Bombay Sapphire gin and tonic...