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...particularly zestful moment came in 1939 when he got so mad at the din from a sewer-construction job near his house that he wrecked a WPA drill with an ax, yelling to the workmen: "I say to you, this damned rat-a-tat-tat day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year, must stop!" He was fined...
...Sand Hill, N.C., men apparently well from tropical diseases, acquired in an average of 18 months overseas, play a variant of ring-around-a-rosy - walloping each other with a loose boxing glove. There is a terrific din of shouting. Their six or eight hours of heavy exercise a day (pushups, pullups, hikes) seems to bring on relapse, thus winnowing out those who need more treatment. One man has had 22 relapses...
...newcomer gets a false sense of security. Hearing none of the usual din of battle, he comes jeeping along, admiring the scenery, when-ping-a sniper's bullet shatters his daydreams. . . . Japanese bullets and knee mortars can kill just as surely as von Mackensen's railway guns at Anzio...
...night we were disturbed by the din of wheels and tracks for hours, and next morning we saw we were "invaded" by the American Army...
...industrial noise is harder on the nerves than the brain-battering din of riveting. In one department of Bell Aircraft Corp.'s huge B-29 plant near Marietta, Ga., dominated by the monstrous chatter of some 450 riveters, conversation has been by lipreading. The uproar has undoubtedly played a big part in the heavy turnover and absenteeism among the riveters, half of whom are women...