Word: amidst
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there was never a time to rest in Moscow, London, Washington or New York. Last April, after a physical checkup, he got a stern warning: "Slow down-or else!" But asking a U.S. Secretary of State to slow down in 1946 was like asking a canoeist to pause amidst rapids. He decided to make a clean break instead, and sent his resignation to. the President...
...unofficial compassion of thousands of G.I.s; but there had been rape, widespread looting and disorderliness. What was worse, most Europeans got the impression from extensive U.S. Army black marketing that most Americans will do anything for money. Nor could the billeting of U.S. officers' families in comfortable houses amidst a ruined people (quite justified) fail to cause ill will. The stare with which the children of the conquerors confronted the children of the conquered (see cut) might be prolonged uncomfortably for generations...
Less than 24 hours after the Star of Cairo took off from Paris, a party of marines reached a snowy peak in California's Laguna Mountains. There, among a litter of wrecked engines, with gaily wrapped Christmas packages amidst the twisted metal, they found what they had come for-the bodies of nine passengers and three crew members of Western Airlines Flight 44-El Centre to San Diego...
...panto cat, goose, monkey, donkey or horse, which romps amidst the audience and is played, as a rule, by some little old man who has donned his moth-eaten pelts every Christmas for the past 40 years...
...self-portraits which now & then appeared in Delvaux's canvases looked even more out of place than the nudes; they exhibited the frozen face and faintly old-fashioned garb of a latter-day Buster Keaton, stalking gloomily amidst his dream harem or lifting his hat to a bare-backed girl friend, as in The Meeting...