Word: amidst
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...melange of corny gags and predicaments. No, holds are barred; all the old and faithful chestnuts are dragged out again for further milking. Picture, if you will, Hope dissolving a snowbank with the heat he generates in a love scene, or the ubiquitous Lamour displaying the inevitable sarong amidst the Alaskan snows. And a talking bear complaining that the writers haven't given him any good lines. And so forth...
Bevin with Knobs. Amidst all these alarms came Churchill's blunt speech (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), to carry still further the sequence of plain talking among the Big Three which began in January with the Bevin-Vishinsky clashes at UNO. Said a bitter left-wing Labor M.P.: "It was Bevin with knobs...
Miss Schmitt claims to have written every sentence in her book no less than three times. At its ardent best, her style is hopeful and reverent, rather than adequate. Amidst such prose, an occasional direct quotation from Samuel I or II comes like the blow of a hammer through a cotton work glove...
...talk between the world and his wife showed, Joseph Stalin was the most feared man of 1945. By his followers in every country he was also the most admired. But he did not dominate the year. And he ended it amidst rumors of ill health, amidst mounting speculation whether his successor would be Diplomat Molotov or Soldier Zhukov...
...Amidst the fine fervor and high purposes of the meeting, the 43 delegations could not fail to be aware of a 44th. Russia, apparently quite satisfied with its answer to the problems and not interested in hearing anyone else's, sent no delegation...