Word: amidst
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rutledge (Bacall) and a mysteriously all-knowing private dick by the name of Marlowe (Bogart). Marlowe is hired to investigate the facts behind the blackmailing of Vivian's maniae young sister Carmen; but as he investigates, he unearths mystery after mystery and murder after murder instead of mere blackmail. Amidst the razzle-dazzle, the spectator knows nothing except that Marlowe is never surprised...
...desk, amidst the maze of blueprints and French curves, he was surprised to see a friendly, non-technical face--a small wooden frame enveloping rows of large beads. Taking note of his childlike delight at meeting an ally in the enemy camp, the receptionist explained, "They use it when the machine breaks down." And he wasn't afraid any more...
...completely discredited Communism, our stupidities would long since have discredited democracy. For example, in Bavaria the Socialists and Christian Democrats united in asking for the provision of a planning commission in their new constitution. Our military government ruled it out on the ground that it was incompatible with democracy. Amidst the awful shambles of the German cities such notions of "free enterprise" are as irrelevant as Communism is noxious. It was a very conservative Bavarian who wailed, "How do Americans expect us to rebuild these cities without planning...
...bands are playing, the air is crisp, and thousands crowd into the stadium on a Saturday afternoon, a hundred-odd cross country harriers got many an unappreciated shin-splint pounding the turf along the Charles or in the grueling four-mile course at Franklin Park. Always an inconspicuous sport amidst the noise of the football season, and until yesterday the World Series, the Crimson harrier aggregation, nevertheless, within a short two-week practice period, managed to take second in the four-way meet last Friday, and promises to attract some attention in the sports arena this fall...
That issue had almost been obscured amidst the mutual doubts and suspicions prevalent for a week before the meeting. Perhaps the most encouraging single aspect of Monday's conference was the sudden concord on that real issue the goal of the new committee: "to provide the College with a democratic and representative Student Council"--in President Campbell's words...