Word: amidst
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sorokin, who initiated the College's department of Sociology in 1931, is content, however, even to glance at the idea of worldwide creative altruism. His early years, spent amidst the violence and destruction of revolutionary Russia where he once waited weeks in prison expecting a Bolshevik firing squad, impressed on him how necessary a formula for peace was to the world...
...also seems appropriate that the world did not learn of Einstein's death until seven hours after it had occurred, and that his hospitalization had received no publicity at all. He was not a man to suffer a long, tense illness and then to die dramatically amidst a roomful of relatives and friends. As he himself said, "I have never belonged wholeheartedly to country or state, to my circle of friends, or even to my own family...
...Francisco and Los Angeles). In Manhattan, where Scelba was welcomed by a cheering crowd, eager greeters pumped his hands and bussed his glowing pink cheeks. Some excavation workers called out: "Hi Mario! Paesan!" In two garment factories Italian-American seamstresses welcomed him with kisses, songs, dances and sentimental weeping. Amidst all the emotion Scelba shed a happy tear or two himself...
...nearby chicken coop, two hand grenades arched through the night air, down among the circling dancers. The explosions toppled dancers like ninepins; 22 lay groaning and bloody on the bare earth. One 22-year-old girl was dead. The survivors dragged the wounded to shelter in the house amidst a hail of Sten gunfire. In the darkness the two attackers slipped off toward Egyptian-held Gaza, 14 miles away...
...some sort of monkey business in my department that I should have known about." The "monkey business" apparently concerned kickbacks to the News's circulation men from dealers who wanted early delivery of the paper. (Three months ago an assistant in the News's circulation department resigned amidst a flurry of such talk.) Said Annenberg: "How ridiculous would I be-if I jeopardized my salary for what they claim I took?" There was also a squabble over the Get-Together Club, an organization of News distributors that Annenberg had formed in 1945 and which, two years later...