Word: amidst
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Count Giuseppe Volpi, 67, felt like a blooming magnolia-one of the pink & white magnolias that were bursting into flower again in Lausanne's formal gardens. For another spring had come to the new ruins of old Europe, amidst which the Count was somewhat surprised to find himself alive. From the Beau-Rivage Hotel, Mussolini's ex-finance minister could watch the Lake of Geneva reflect the blue sky as in a sun-flecked mirror. Some mornings were so crisp that the Count could see clear across to Evians-les-Bainson the French shore, where, in the evil...
Tokyo radio reported a more violent expression of opinion. Forty-three years ago the grateful Japanese erected a stone monument, near Yokohama, to Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry, who opened up Japan to western trade and influence. Last fortnight members of the Imperial Rule Assistance Youth Corps, "amidst yo-heave-ho shouts," tore it down. Replacing the Perry Monument is a wooden monolith with inscriptions "to stimulate the spirit to defend the fatherland...
...There are some Americans who are still sleepwalking amidst the grim and terrible realities in Europe...
...with the long "ow" a la Hanson) introduced the first human note we've heard in the cold pages of the accounting class last Saturday when he came out with a genuine concern for the future of widows and orphans amidst the cold, hard facts of a disbursements ledger. Now Neale is waiting to see if even such a warm heart can get one a High Pass in Accounting...
...Life. But the past, and even the new threat of bombing by Japanese planes, seemed unimportant to Filipinos living amidst the great, exciting fact of the U.S. Army. The Army was everything to all men-entertainment, a source of supply, a rich and uncritical market, and a vast library of information. Filipino jazz lovers, who were still singing Oh, Johnny and The Dipsy Doodle, pumped soldiers for new songs and lyrics. In Tanauan, an enterprising Filipino, knowing G.I. tastes, set up a hamburger stand. Another stand sold G.I. ten-in-one rations back to the troops...