Word: amidst
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Amidst cries of "foul" and "unfair" Holworthy downed Thayer Middle 48 to 40 yesterday in the freshman intramural basketball championship. Thayer chaged in vain that unfair rule changes had been made. Holworthy's King Triplett was high scorer in the game with seventeen points. Skip Falcone and Ted Lynch were high point men for Thayer Middle with nine each...
...answer to that question was given in the President's speech. Amidst the rhetoric he said, "Some may urge us to try it again, keeping our preparations to test in a constant state of readiness. But in actual practice, particularly in a society of free choice, we cannot keep top-flight scientists concentrating on the preparation of an experiment which may or may not take place on an uncertain date in the undefined future...
...memoranda, personal memoirs and previous historical writings. Ullman's selected bibliography includes well over a hundred titles, not to mention manuscripts, papers and unpublished documents. The chapters follow a careful chronological pattern. The only difficulty with the book is that the reader occasionally loses the main thread of events amidst a welter of seemingly unconnected incidents. He feels as if he were viewing a kaleidoscope--at one moment he is reading about negotiations in Moscow and at the next about Czech troops in Chelyabinsk. Yet this disconnectedness gives an accurate impression of the complexity of the Russian situation...
...Amidst the generally sloppy play of last weeks' games appeared one bright spot for the Crimson--the return to form of captain Gary Borchard. Borchard, a second-team All-Ivy selection for the past two years, scored a total of 50 points against Yale and Brown...
...Thursday, Gov. Rockefeller joked with Gov. Volpe, and other, lesser Republican dignitaries at a reception given by the Harvard Young Republicans; and amidst the laughter he warned that "in this period of conflict in the world, the two party political system is the basic strength of democracy...