Word: amidst
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stage, a rake-voiced orator tripped through his garden of adjectives. The man he was describing sat amidst the delegates below, hunched forward in his chair, sneaking bites from a hot dog and sips from a paper cup of soda pop, paying no more attention to the routine speech than the rest of the audience did. The speech was about him, but neat, grey little Harry Shippe Truman, 60, has heard thousands of speeches in his years of politics...
...very fact that you cry out now amidst carnage and despair against a far-off injustice, and the fact that TIME prints your letter, and the fact that many people will reply, supporting your views, should tell you that our national life, while far from perfect, is still good, still worth your coming back to, still in need of you and your straight thinking...
...collapsed with malaria and dengue fever. Still grey with sickness, he set up headquarters on Guadalcanal preparatory to the New Georgia invasion. "Terrible" Turner's bridge was a jungle clearing marked by a wooden sign: "U.S.S. Crocodile-Flagship- Amphibious Forces South Pacific." Under the scorching tropic sun, amidst the quack of bena birds and the coo of kura kura pigeons, dressed in khaki pants and shirt, he taught the new amphibious doctrine, which he was learning himself, to the officers under his heterogeneous command: air officers, marine colonels, brigadier generals, destroyer captains, PT commanders, crusty transport skippers...
...really superb acting jobs, is the intelligent treatment of the enemy. Here are presented carefully and convincingly the dilemma of the Italian fighter with nothing to fight for, the unflinching arrogant faith of the Nazi mind, and more powerful than all this, the intense humanness persisting somehow even amidst the mechanical brutality of modern war. For this alone, "Sahara" is well worth seeing, and, incidentally, worth suffering through the other half of the bill...
...Havilland's boyfriend (Jess Barker), a smooth young attorney in search of scandal, is also interested in her boss. Investigated at long last by the Senate, Planeman Tufts is saved only by Miss de Havilland's impetuous glorification, before the Committee, of Men Who Get Things Done. Amidst the dramatic moments is a lighter passage which depicts the romantic leads running hogwild through the streets of the Capital on a motorcycle neither of them can operate...