Word: amidst
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...carried tents, blankets, food, military trucks and antibiotics, a full 72,000 lbs. of emergency supplies for the victims of the island's worst disaster since 1908 (see THE WORLD). Within hours of the first flights, U.S. television screens recorded glimpses of their handiwork: snug tent villages erected amidst the rubble, field kitchens turning out hot meals, doctors and medics ministering to the shocked and the injured. No one watched with greater concern than Stephen R. Tripp, 56, a dapper, cheerful State Department officer who has earned the ambivalent title of "Mr. Catastrophe...
Sitting cross-legged amidst urns of brightly colored flowers and gently fingering a string of red beads. His Holiness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Monday night told an overflowing Sanders Theatre audience what was wrong with American higher education...
...Seated amidst the gilt and crystal of a venerable concert hall, watching an elegantly tail-coated conductor lead a Brahms symphony, the modern concertgoer may sometimes feel that he is inhabiting a scene preserved in amber. In such a tradition-rounded realm, the conductor and everything under his sway appear to have been unaltered in half a century. His basic repertory is the same. The makeup of his orchestra and its instruments are unchanged. The auditoriums he performs in are virtually the size and shape they always were. Through an epoch of transformations that have touched nearly every human activity...
Harvard's John Whitbeck and Cornell's Jim Levin took turns throwing racquets and taking spills. And amidst their anguished "oh's," "golly's," and "aw come on's" and bursts of applause from the spectators, Levin overcame Whitbeck's brilliant comeback effort...
...Amidst shouts of "point of order" and "objection" the RGA yesterday struggled through approval of five articles of the new Radcliffe Undergraduate Association (RUA) constitution...