Word: amidst
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rapidly dawned on the demonstrators that it was cruel and pointless to harrass Leavitt. When one shouted amidst a volley of questions, "Don't badger him," the mood of the protesters literally shifted instantaneously to one of warmth and sympathy. Someone offered Leavitt a Harvard lunch bag, which he would accept only after it had been pushed at him several times. That ended a very distinct phase in the demonstration--the vent your Vietnam venom on Leavitt stage. Leavitt had personally proved to be a lousy symbol of the war machine...
...Aldabra as their major Indian Ocean nesting site, blot out the rays of the sun. Thousands of rare giant land tortoises, some 4-ft. across and weighing as much as 600 Ibs., creep across the pitted coral and ridged limestone surface of the island. Tiny flightless rails nestle amidst Aldabra's bushy scrub and mangrove forests, while above them swoop red-footed boobies, sacred ibises and fruit-eating bats. Twenty of the island's plant species are nonexistent elsewhere in the world; so are a host of its insect inhabitants...
...more clods of earth fell into the incredibility gap this week when the lad from the Pedernales insisted that American success in Vietnam will "lead to a free Asia--and a more secure America." It is a moot point, of course, whether Asians have more freedom amidst Yankee gunfire or Oriental Communism...
...real life will begin." What she has written down is a family chronicle of sorrowful revelations and pastoral reminiscences, a series of personal footnotes to a convulsion of history. Now 41 and living in the U.S., she will be remembered as one of the great witnesses to loneliness amidst power, to innocence amidst corruption...
...three Princesses Ruspoli, Rose Kennedy, Clare Boothe Luce, Sonny and Marylou Whitney, who wore rhinestones in honor of her recent $780,000 jewel theft, and Richard and Elizabeth Burton, who had dispatched a plane first to Sardinia and then to Rome to fetch the proper dress for the ball. Amidst all the gaiety, practically no one noticed that the ball raised only $40,000 for the beleaguered Venetian artisans-a donation of less than $80 per Beautiful Person. But after all, did not the Tiepelo nose belong to Douglas Fairbanks, and was it not swizzled in his champagne by Vicomtesse...