Word: amidst
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Young Matteo Matteotti, bone-bred Socialist that he was, was nonetheless outraged by the alliance which Socialist Party Leader Pietro Nenni had just made with the Communists. Sadly, Matteotti charged Nenni with spreading "fear and terrorism" in the party. Then, amidst cries of "degenerate son," he stalked out to help organize a splinter group, which eventually became the anti-Communist Social Democratic Party...
Israelis we're too pleased that the world had seen them peacefully welcoming an Egyptian to care about the criticisms he made, e.g., of Arab poverty amidst Jewish productivity. In Washington John Foster Dulles announced that the whole episode made the U.S. Government "very happy," and London diplomats called it a hopeful augury for relaxing tension in the Middle East. The U.N. Palestine truce chief, Canada's Major General Eedson L. M. Burns, announced that the two countries had finally accepted the U.N. plan to set up a dozen observation posts to strengthen the Israeli-Egyptian border ceasefire...
...customs men, the greying junketeers began their reunion with a rousing "Tiger, tiger, tiger, sis-boom-bah!" Then, starting out in Tokyo (where they lunched with onetime Japanese Ambassador to the U.S. Eikichi Araki, a Princeton graduate school student in 1923), the visitors set out to see Japan. Amidst a profusion of potent Japanese beer, sake, bourbon, Scotch and all manner of native dishes, they saw Fujiyama mantled in unseasonable snow, famed shrines and spas, one geisha dance so laden with obscure symbolism that Host Osawa told his mystified buddies: "If you can understand either it or the program notes...
...weeks Western governments had known that the Russians were going to do it. Nikita Khrushchev had said as much to Harold Stassen, amidst the drinks and din of the party at Claridge's. But when the announcement came last week that the Soviet Union would reduce its armed forces by 1,200,000 men by May 1957, the response of the West was confused, contradictory and uncertain...
...Amidst bustling all about the U.S. and the Caribbean area last year, blithe-spirited British Playwright-Actor-Composer Noel Coward got homesick and visited Britain for eight weeks. High price of gratifying his nostalgia: $70,000, the amount that Britain's revenooers collected from him because he had set foot on the tight little isle.* Last week, on his way to France by ocean liner, Expatriate Coward gazed fondly through a porthole when his ship put in at Plymouth. "Ah, this beautiful England!" sighed he. "One step on dear old England...