Word: amidst
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...French marched to battle in retreat-like confusion. "A horse collapsed and could not rise again; a tank passed over him. The heavy caterpillar treads cut into his living flesh. Stray cows . . . bellowing with pain .. . ran amidst the tanks, trucks, and cannon. Everybody was looking for everybody else. . . . And no one knew where he was going...
...with one Daily Worker Red on it. No support came from the floor. From the chair: "This resolution is designed for one purpose-to smash the N.M.U." Doyle replied that its sole purpose was to get to the bottom of charges that the union "is filled up with Commies." Amidst jeering and booing, Waiter Doyle first offered to stand trial himself on his unionism, then resigned from N.M.U. This would cost him his job, Curran promised, because the Ancon's N.M.U. crew would not stand for his being aboard...
...Hero of the convention was Australian Harry Bridges, gaunt, hot-eyed boss of C.I.O.'s West Coast longshoremen, now being investigated for deportation on the grounds that he was once a member of the Communist Party. Bridges rambled into the hall three days late, grinned happily amidst his welcome: confetti, dancing, hammerings, five minutes' yelling. N.M.U. had already gone on record against his deportation. Host Curran: "... a very distinguished citizen who has caused a great deal of concern in the National Association of Manufacturers...
Shortly before 1:45 o'clock, the dismounted battalions formed under the elms in the quadrangle in front of Widener, and, preceded by a band from Fort Devens and the Regimental Commander with his staff, marched through the Square to Soldiers Field amidst shouts of "You're in the Army...
...stunts. Brow-battering, car-tweaking, nose-picking Moc sings hoarse opera. And Mike, the guy with a dinosaur's build and Minnie Mouse's laryux, is anointed Bulgarian Golden Gloves Champ after a tooth and claw battle with Curley, the tapirnosed bald head. And all this goes on amidst rhumbas and tangoes by a red-hot Pan-American band! The more cultured group will be nauseated by rough and ready buffoonery which makes the Marx Brothers seem subtle by comparison. But if you like your humor simple and sincere, the Keithe Boston's dizzy program offers a bellyful of laughs...