Word: amidst
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...small but very important anniversary passed almost unnoticed amidst the world's preoccupation with the problems of peace in Europe. One year ago last week the first three buzz-bombs fell on England. They injured 52 people, killed eight. They meant that Britain in a military (and hence in a political) sense had almost ceased to be an island, that the North Sea, Dover Strait and the English Channel, which for centuries had served England "in the office of a wall, or as a moat defensive to a house," had for purpose of war shriveled to a trickle. Henceforth...
...week. Any decrease in hours of work, he said, must bring with it a decrease in the national income which the country can ill afford. One of the primary aims of the 30 hour week, according to Professor Haberler and his colleagues, is to remedy the paradox of "poverty amidst plenty," but said the former Austrian economist, to eliminate the plenty is not the solution
...first bomb hit near the bridge. The second smashed through the flight deck amidst the parked planes. The explosions rolled into one tremendous detonation...
...Birds hiding amidst twisted foliage, snakes coiled around trunks of trees . . . fern-crooks . . . feathers . . . scarabs . . . naiads swimming . . . knights in full armor...
...history that power, even the power of evil, eventually produced the power which would supersede it. Perhaps from the concentration camps would come at least part of the power which would restore to civilization generations of German children, too young to know what such horrors were and too innocent amidst the environing evil to share its guilt, though they would suffer its consequences. Perhaps these prisoners, and these children, were the hope of Germany and the world, which could not hope to remain unpoisoned if Germany were to remain forever a septic pool of guilt, retributive justice, a sullen pariah...