Word: amidst
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Even amidst all this confusion, Harbor Lights might have been interesting had it had a lyrical or even believable line of dialogue. "If I've failed you, honey, it is all my fault," someone says to someone else. Now when would ordinary Staten Island white trash use that kind of language? If both the action and dialogue are impossible, even such accomplished players as Miss Linda Darnell and Mr. Robert Alda of Hollywood, Calif. are bound to have trouble. Most assuredly they at least know their lines...
...Pennsylvania vigorously denied the charge, but last week, amidst the swelling uproar, the Interstate Commerce Commission announced a full-scale investigation of the whole passenger problem. Save for the World War II years, the railroads say that they have been losing money steadily on passengers during the past quarter century. By official ICC computation the passenger loss for Class I railroads (those grossing more than $3,000,000 annually) reached a staggering $642 million in 1952, rose to $705 million in 1953, dropped slightly to $670 million in 1954 and $636 million in 1955. The ICC arrived at these figures...
...fact that many do not even know the language he addresses them in, bothers his audience. They have come not to hear Nehru but for darshan, the spiritual impact of being in the presence of a great personality. When the speech is over, the crowd cheers, and amidst the applause Nehru bounds down from the platform, smiling at everyone, his irritability gone. "Nehru," says one American familiar with these spectacles, "is the opium of the Indian masses-and they...
...Illah, little Feisal posed for an official photograph, looking delighted as a 21-year-old with his gleaming white uniform, the attention he was getting and the company he was keeping-the Duke of Edinburgh (caparisoned as an Admiral of the Fleet) and Queen Elizabeth II, a crownless standout amidst the profusion of feathers, ribbons, tassels and gold braid...
...else. Opposition Leader Hugh Gaitskell raised such sharp questions that an ex-guardsman major on the Tory side got up, pale and indignant, to say that Gaitskell's remarks amounted "to one of the most highly treasonable statements ever made by a member of the Opposition." Amidst outraged howls, the major was forced to withdraw. Writing in the Spectator, waspish Randolph Churchill protested that Britain now had a Turkish Foreign Secretary, and added, "This is what passes for statesmanship in the Eden...