Word: amide
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Amid the jumble of stalls, dense with the flow of human traffic and clattering with the din of vendors hawking wares, shoppers poke animals for tenderness and watch closely as purchases are weighed in hand-held balance scales, and mothers quiet crying children with cuts of sugarcane or towering lollipops of golden caramelized sugar pulled into flamboyant dragons...
...strange man," Christie's auctioneer Charles Allsopp said of Van Gogh amid the clamor that followed the fall of the gavel. "He wasn't very good at marketing it." Not only a deep epitaph but a modest understatement: Van Gogh sold, as everyone knows, one painting in his life, and it was not Sunflowers. If only he had had what we have today -- a million millionaires clamoring for art, corporate art advisers breeding like Gucci-shod mice in every cranny from Tokyo to Stuttgart, the whole grotesque edifice of sanctimony, hype, greed and social mummery that has been raised above...
...that afternoon, amid mutual efforts at chivalrous good sportsmanship by Dole and Byrd, the Senate defeated President Reagan by the bare margin...
...order to protect the rights of free speech amid such protests, the administration must take it upon itself to ensure that controversial speakers enjoy their rights. In the recent case, police, presumably acting with the pre-ordained blessing of the administration, reacted almost instantaneously to SASC's blockade by clearing one of the two blocked exists and whisking the confused Duke Kent-Brown out of the room. The speaker did not return to the room and the audience was cleared out. Despite claims to the contrary by Dean of the Faculty Michael Spence, the police and administrators on the scene...
Atkins began playing Pied Piper to the rich in 1978 with a scheme that promised $4 in paper losses from securities trading for every $1 invested. He was only 24 when he started and 29 when the operation ended in 1983 amid lawsuits from angry investors who accused Atkins of having caused them huge losses. Many had felt queasy about trusting someone under 30, but were reassured by Atkins' plush, marble-floored offices at 500 Park Avenue, his impeccable grooming and the fact that his father was a well-known oil executive. The Tisches say they went along because their...