Word: amidst
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...closing action, Captain Vere is killed by a falling mast. His body lies in a pool of blood amidst the rubble of battle. Suddenly, the camera swings to an aerial shot of the duelling French and British ships. As the movie ends, the narrator assures the audience that despite the death of the innocent Budd, "history will see the victory of justice...
...mighty presses are silent. But life must go on. To borrow a newspaperman's phrase, Don't cry over spilt milk, it might have been scotch." And so for the last few months Cantabridgians have their way to the Out of Town newsstand in the Square and there, amidst the fumes of MTA busses, have sought to compensate their gnawing sense of loss...
...time since the crash last spring. In its latest quarterly consumer poll, the University of Michigan reported that 39% of the nation's families are earning more than they were a year ago, and that 20% of them expect to buy new or used cars in 1963. But amidst all these euphoric signs, there is one troubling problem which afflicts a minority-but too big a minority -of Americans. Said the University of Michigan survey: "Worries, especially about unemployment, are widespread...
Wives v. Boots. Founder and autocratic boss of this Down-East Abercrombie & Fitch is L. L. (for Leon Leonwood) Bean, 90, a crusty Yankee who is more woodsman than businessman. Bean still works vigorously each day in a glassed-in office amidst the production line, is proud of the fact that he has bagged 35 deer in his lifetime. ("That's a lot of deer, son. You can get only one a year, you know.") He personally edits each entry in the Bean mail-order catalogue, and his spare, disarming style has been used in advertising textbooks as exemplary...
...over the fog-cloaked Annamese mountains in the northern part of South Viet Nam. Most of the HUS-i choppers carried Vietnamese troops headed for battle with the Communists, but in the last one were two Navy medics and six marines. Suddenly, the copter plummeted into a jungle mountainside amidst 100-ft.-tall trees...