Word: amidst
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been barred from membership in New York City's fashionable West Side Tennis Club (in Forest Hills, Queens) because of his race (TIME, July 20). Club President Wilfred Burglund, the Manhattan public relations man who had told Bunche that the club excludes Negroes and Jews, resigned last week amidst public clamor for his singed scalp. Then the club's governors were moved to announce: "It is the policy of the club to consider and accept members without regard to race, creed or color." But Dr. Bunche had no plans to push Ralph Jr. through the West Side...
Unleashed, the chain reaction of violence had one more stage to go. Next day. Guayaquil's slum dwellers, bitter over their poverty amidst Ecuador's growing prosperity (TIME. Feb. 23). came out looting, burning, battling soldiers for another night before martial law and exhaustion put an end to the outbreak that resentful Draftee García unwittingly touched...
Filibusters and rebellions roil the Caribbean ; neighboring British colonies move toward independence; nationalism flourishes. Amidst it all, the French West Indies-Martinique, Guadeloupe and their islet dependencies-glide ever closer to full membership in Charles de Gaulle's French Community...
...Battery A, 45th Antiaircraft Artillery Brigade, near suburban Arlington Heights, Ill. last week, blackbooted soldiers in fresh-starched fatigues worked over radar screens and Nike missile launch gear. Amidst the familiar incense of hot electronic equipment they chanted their trade litany as they practiced tracking on unsuspecting airliners: "Interlock held. Interlock cheated . . . Line volts O.K. . . . Three-quarters, three-quarters...
...jumping in, almost unknown, to win the Lieutenant Governor's race. He held office only two years before the Supreme Court handed down its desegregation decision, and soon after, Incumbent Governor William B. Umstead died of a heart attack. Suddenly the tenant farmer's son stood amidst the biggest crisis since Appomattox...