Word: amide
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...neighbor emerged from Elmer Steffes' white farmhouse amid the gentle bluffs of southwest Iowa. "You might as well go home--and take your dog with . you," said Steffes' 23-year-old daughter Kay, in a bitter undertone that the neighbor did not hear. Inside the house, Elmer, 47, a sturdy, barrel-chested man, explained he is losing his 460-acre farm and suspected that the neighbor might have been snooping around for the bank that will seize his property. "You can't be too sure of anybody these days," Steffes said...
...AMID ALL THE controversy about housing lotteries and Quad renovations, there is a group of about 60 undergraduates who couldn't care less...
...nearly finished with my dissertation when I was summoned to see Semyon Tsarapkin, head of the Foreign Ministry department in charge of United Nations and disarmament affairs. I found him posing like a czar behind his desk, strutting amid the disorder of an office piled with heaps of papers and books, ornamented by a battery of telephones, and infused with an oppressive sense of his abrasive personality...
...Quito, Ecuador, he called for the "gradual disappearance of the intolerable abyss" between rich and poor, and appealed for land reform and medical and old-age protection for workers. At mountainous Latacunga, Ecuador, he met 250,000 members of deprived indigenous tribes, who greeted him with painted faces amid a din of pipes and drums. The Pope told them to oppose both the "unacceptable injustice" of their situation and the use of violence to bring social change...
...pleased by her celebrity--and by the $1.5 million she earned from her first book of memoirs, Twenty Letters to a Friend. Well-wishers kept the house she rented in Princeton, N.J., filled with flowers. Fan letters, presents, even proposals of marriage arrived. Academic and society people lionized her. Amid such warm attention, she did not appear to worry unduly about her children in Moscow. Joseph, 22, and Yekaterina ("Katya"), 17, were already grown up, she explained. "The life of my children will not be changed...