Word: amongst
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite November's sharp dip in unemployment, the total at year's end was still running half again as high as the 4% rate that the Administration deems toler able. More serious, there had been painfully little reduction of unemployment amongst those last-hired, first-fired groups of Americans: the unskilled, the Negroes, the very old and the very young, notably the high school dropouts. In 1961, unskilled and semiskilled laborers constituted less than a quarter of the U.S. work force-but almost half the long-term unemployed. In an increasingly automated and sophisticated economy, those workers...
...Amongst all other things I've been called, I can't recollect ever having been Anthony [July 28]. I look forward to the day when TIME will know me as, sincerely...
...have not recounted the full story of Chalk Circle; the play contains a prologue, setting the action within the Soviet Union. The War is over, and a tract of land must be redistributed amongst various collective farmers. The Chalk Circle sequence, or the play proper, is thus set as a play within the play, designed to point the moral that the Soviets will invariably make the right and just decisions...
Along with its echoes of Britain's Westminster, the legislature over which Sir Abubakar presided last week had some of the flavor of a Pan-African Congress. On its benches tall, haughty Hausas, splendidly robed in green and scarlet, sat amongst volatile Ibos draped in white and azure gowns. Across the aisle were Yoruba tribesmen wrapped in gold, yellow and orange with little porkpie beanies on their heads. Between them, they constituted one of the world's noisiest Parliaments. Each speaker was greeted with cries of "Heah, heah" from his friends and derisory shouts of "Sit down...
...desire of the Japanese people to reach democratic maturity is, amongst others, expressed in the fact that Japan has not only one of the greatest number of regular newspaper readers but there are also magazines of high standing with a very large circulation. Two of these magazines gave me a dinner followed by two or three hours' interview which, on the basis of a tape-recording, was edited and published in the magazine. The questions were political and cultural...