Word: amidst
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When she came onstage in the first-act church scene, carrying flowers, she looked like a faded portrait out of the 1920s. Amidst wild applause, she gazed artfully at the upper tiers; then, after putting her flowers on the altar, she walked slowly to the front of the stage, and kneeling on one knee, bowed to the floor. The ovation lasted for two minutes...
...weeks past, the news of his coming had been heard amidst the clatter of traffic on Bangkok's twisted, crowded streets. Peddlers had passed it from sampan to sampan along the winding, traffic-jammed klong (canals) that made Siam's capital an eastern Venice. Strawhatted boatmen on the wider canals that crisscross the rice-rich central plains to the north had told it to farmers' wives in houses perched on stilts. Up the great rivers, the Chao Phraya, the Mekong, the Tha Chin, the Ping, the Si and the Mun, it had gone with wandering merchants thumbing...
...Thank you for placing the article in the International section. Perhaps there, amidst the political news, rather than under Theater, Books or Religion, it will be more thoughtfully read by those decent godless people whose vision of world salvation is limited to the United Nations...
...price, a two-tone beanie, a magno-power '50 Ford ("oh boy--eye-popping thrills"), and a Donald Duck ring which rolls its eyes and opens its mouth when you apply the secret magnetic control (in the form of a miniature Pep box.) And inside amidst the Pep there is a plastic statuette, one of eighteen in a series ranging from football players to broncos rampant...
...resolution, which recommended that the Faculty Committee on Student Activities include an anti-bias clause in the official "Rules for Undergraduate Organizations," passed amidst protest December 19 and squeaked by again January 10 when the Council deadlocked on the issue...