Word: amidst
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...when the first gunships and Medevac helicopters arrived, the entire base was in flames. "You couldn't see because of the smoke," said Lieut. Mat Noonan, a Medevac pilot. "We had to circle three times just to see where the pad was." Noonan finally set down amidst "the worst carnage I have ever seen at an American installation. There were rows and rows of bodies-some burned to charcoal, others completely disemboweled. There were nine body bags full of bits and pieces of flesh...
...Vegas is really an interesting place to grow up," Pete said. "The people who live there don't frequent the pleasure palaces. They're trying to preserve a sense of community amidst everything, and it's difficult when there is a slot-machine in every grocery store...
Civil war continued to rage in East Pakistan yesterday amidst reports that the West Pakistani army is using artillery and machine guns against unarmed East Pakistani civilians...
WITH its modern marble façade and its sleek steel-and-glass lines, the Palace of Congresses seems out of place amidst the ponderous 15th century walls and onion-shaped domes of the Kremlin. In the palace's vast, streamlined auditorium Russia's rulers next week will stage one of the regime's most important political extravaganzas in some time?the 24th Congress of the Soviet Communist Party. The Congress was to have been held in early 1970. It was delayed for a full year, indicating that the eleven-man Politburo, which constitutes Russia's collective leadership, has been locked...
Throughout U.S. Journal, a collection of Trillin's New Yorker pieces, the author reportedly lands like a benign ordering presence-deus ex-machine gunner-amidst chaos, humbug and hoopla. Covering a great deal of ground, he is naturally sympathetic toward other traveling men. He writes about a Dow Chemical recruiter who in 1968 had to go from campus to campus, removing his shoes to step over antiwar demonstrators, and try to answer such polite undergraduate questions as, "I was wondering if a Dow employee could be prosecuted as a war criminal ten or 15 years from now?" Elsewhere, Trillin...