Word: amidst
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What seemed like only moments later, a light rain was falling and Weiskopf, one-iron snugly in place, was walking onto the putting surface amidst thunderous applause and a smattering of boos. He had just placed a rather routine iron shot to the right center of the green, about 25 feet short of the pin. Included in his group were Lee Elder, one of the few black hopes on the PGA tour, and none other than Killer and his man, Regalado. Elder had played his second shot from the fairway, and had wound up about 20 feet past the flag...
...Amidst a riotous swirl of banners and balloons Miami's cavernous Convention Hall, Richard Nixon strode to the microphones on Aug. 8, 1968, and, confident of victory in November, accepted the Republican nomination for President. It was the culmination, he said, of "an impossible dream" he had had all his life. Four years later, Nixon was renominated for what looked like-and proved to be-a push over of a campaign for a second term. On yet another Aug. 8, last week, Nixon announced his resignation, midway through his term, ruined by his own deeds. The impossible dream...
...cold Saturday in January 1973, amidst rumors that the administration would soon announce a negotiated settlement to the war in Vietnam, Richard M. Nixon swore for the second time to uphold and defend the Constitution as president of the United States. Riding the tide of an unprecedented electoral victory and aware of the adulation that the end of direct U.S. involvement in Indochina would bring him, the day of his second inaugural was Nixon's moment of triumph...
Jobriath is claim amidst the clamorings. Motioning to the other musicians, he says, "That's Steve Love, Greg Diamond--as in bijou,--Jim Gregory, Hayden Wayne ... no, there isn't any name for the group. We're all the Jobriath's. He laughs, "We do have a lot of fun together, don't we boys...
...AMIDST ALL these concessions, Harvard has barely budged: it is now offering the printers an 8.5 per cent second year raise, having raised its offer 1.5 per cent while the printers were lowering theirs 9 per cent and giving in on the length of the contract and the terms of the first year. The University is apparently especially concerned about making as few concessions as possible because it is afraid that if it gives the printers what they deserve it will have to do the same for other Harvard workers...