Word: amidst
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...individuals and 13 Texas companies, the conspiracy involved fraudulent manipulation of stock prices, trading in unregistered stock, and arranging bank loans and stock trades beneficial to politicians. Though not named as defendants in the suit, a number of the highest Democratic state leaders are implicated, including Governor Preston Smith. Amidst the debris...
...simple open-air ceremony amidst the scenic ruins of Kent State University, Mrs. Bella Abzug and Richard Nixon are joined in holy matrimony, Mrs. Abzug is the former congressman and women's rights advocate recently released from the Radic-Lib Female Detention Center on the third floor of the White House. Mr. Nixon is Emperor of the United States...
...years. Until 1958, Parliaments were indirectly elected. After Field Marshal Mohammed Ayub Khan seized power in that year, an elite electorate of village leaders and landowners, eventually numbering 120,000, was selected to choose a National Assembly. Nearly two years ago, Ayub stepped down amidst bloody rioting as Pakistanis demanded basic social reforms such as a popularly elected parliament and an improved educational system...
Like blisters rising on a sunburned skin, bubble buildings are popping up all over the landscape. An architectural curiosity only a decade ago, the air-supported, plastic bubbles are rapidly becoming a familiar sight, appearing−and sometimes disappearing−overnight amidst city skyscrapers, in suburban shopping centers and on country fields...
...AMERICA," remarked Gertrude Stein, "is the oldest nation in the world." America's architecture, sadly, bears out the comment. In any American city, amidst the incoherence of unrelated structures our inability to appeal to any potential modern sensibility is conspicuous. The descendants of immigrants and pioneers continue to raise disfunctional monuments in archaic styles...