Word: amidst
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Amidst the swirling uncertainties of the White House, one man pursues his remarkable rounds unafraid of the past or the future...
...Nickel Mountain comes as something of a surprise. But it's not as if the corpse of the boy who cried wolf were just found amidst self-righteous moralmongering. The novel's appearance is more triumphant, as if the boy, after playing his little joke once too often, were to return home one day bruised and bloody with the dead wolf's skin slung over his shoulder. Nickel Mountain has just that simple tone of life-enhancing experience...
...Amidst this internecine turmoil, Peron remains aloof and caught in a dilemma: he cannot restore law and order in Argentina while his own movement is riven with internal strife. If he tries, he puts himself in the position of fighting his own supporters...
...Amidst our complex problems and difficulties there are some reassuring facts: the average American doctor is better trained than his colleagues elsewhere; his opportunity for postgraduate education is the most extensive in the world; and medicine is the most tightly controlled profession...
...students were on vacation when the junta carried through its referendum installing Papadopoulos as the president of the Greek "Republic" amidst cries and protests of fraud and deception at the ballot...