Word: amongst
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...country after country, Chou preached alliance of the colored, underprivileged peoples of the world-"a pact amongst poor friends." This pitch went over better than any other, and no doubt it will be the theme song of future Chinese programs in Africa. But for all his polychromatic pandering, Chou still found many African leaders cool toward China. Indeed, some were just plain frightened...
...always wanted to live here. Now she probably will, since a new show-biz circuit is open to her. She has a twinkle of accomplishment in her eye when she remembers that during her first go at the Palladium "my name, it was down amongst the wines and spirits-the way it is here at the moment...
...tala" (purveyors of hot cooked meats or other foodstuffs) offered their little trays of sugared delicacies, of spiced offals stuck on a wooden skewer and liberally dusted with hot pepper, of puffed cracknells fried golden brown in seething oil, passing up and down in endless procession amongst the assembled multitude...
There is nothing saccharine about Jane Wilson. Daughter of a farmer-civil engineer, she was raised in the cornfields of Iowa amongst sturdy Midwestern virtues as high as her eye. She went to a two-room schoolhouse with one room closed for lack of students. In high school and college bands she played the oboe and the bagpipe. From the State University of Iowa, she got a B.A. in art, an M.A. in oil painting, and a Phi Beta Kappa key. There, too, she married Composer John Gruen, now an art and music critic for the New York Herald Tribune...
...problems existing in San Cristobal and the neighboring villages are important and dramatic ones. Can progress be imposed on a community that senses no alternative to poverty, illiteracy and superstition? Can economic and social reform be achieved amongst people who have not yet articulated the need...