Word: amidst
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...occasion was the private summit conference of the three key Laotian princes, who met amidst a swirl of tubby vacationers at Zurich's Dolder Grand Hotel. At the end of five days of talk, greying Prince Boun Oum, ineffectual Premier of the royal government, sighed wearily: "All I want is tranquillity." Prince Souvanna Phouma, who espouses a doctrine called "neutrality in neutralism" and who is recognized as Premier by the Communists, tolerantly explained: "Boun Oum is a patriot, but he let himself be used by the Americans. He wants to get out of politics. I would like...
...President John F. Kennedy sped across the face of Europe last week amidst a clamor of headlines and admiring stares for his wife. But the men and nations that he visited in his brief days there were preoccupied with problems of their own, which existed before he came and would linger after he had gone...
...that philosophy is only semantics and that ethical judgments are merely emotional expressions like "Yipee!", Hook still believes in philosophy as a meaningful guide to human actions. On the other hand, he also stands apart from the recent upsurge of Christian existentialism propounded by Jaspers and Tillich. In short, amidst changing philosophical fashions, he has remained steadfast to the credo he learned, not at his mother's knee, but from his spiritual father, John Dewey-a rational humanist whose roots reach back to Enlightenment...
...story of how he escaped arrest and made it to the embassy is told in the Hemisphere section. When he thought it safe to leave the embassy for the airport, escorted by a Swiss official, he became for 3½ hours a member of the nerve-racked crowd, sitting amidst their belongings in a hot, airless waiting room, wondering whether they could get aboard the plane, whether they would first be stopped by an official, perhaps even led off to jail. The G-2 official who questioned Mallin, unaware that Mallin was on a wanted list at headquarters, was unexpectedly...
...proceed from an improved economic posture. If unemployment remains so high (11 per cent), the improvement is unlikely to occur. This again illustrates how important is the interaction between our relations with Canada and Canada's role in the free-world "partnership." Neither goodwill nor Jackie Kennedy's beauty amidst the Ottawa tulips will do the trick...