Word: amidst
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Demand for paperboard boxes is so strong that producers are amidst their third round in a year of price increases, averaging about 5%. International Harvester quietly raised prices on heavy-duty trucks by an average 2.7% two weeks ago. Last week Owens-Illinois, Inc. raised fall prices by 3% on 60% of its glass containers, which package such things as food, drugs, toiletries and soft drinks. Even the Government joined the trend, as the General Services Administration upped the sales price of stockpiled tin from...
...Temple University's "Encore Club" applauds TIME'S cover story, "The Command Generation" [July 29]. We "coeds over 21" applaud Temple for permitting us to toil amidst flaming youth-some of them our own offspring...
...second floor was being ripped away. At the Circus Tavern, pool players dove under tables, emerging safely minutes later from ten feet of debris. The legend of Burnett's Mound disappeared into the funnel. "I never did think it was true," said one tearful resident as he picked amidst the rubble of his home. "But I sure wanted...
...minute later Neubert upped the tally to 2-0, by scooping a loose ball amidst a pile of players into the Indian net. Harvard's all-out attack succeeded again when Ted Leary cut in front of the net and tucked the ball into the far corner to make the score...
...Rubens sold the 7-ft. by 10-ft. oil to the British Ambassador to The Hague for 600 florins. A surviving letter, signed by the artist, describes the work as "Daniel amidst many lions, which are taken from the life. Original, the whole by my hand." Rubens is often dismissed as a rote fabricator of effulgent flesh, of plump nudes and pillared panoramas of bestial warriors. His Daniel is, otherwise, dramatic proof of the baroque at its turbulent best...