Word: amongst
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This was what I was looking for. I wandered blissfully out of the eighties, amongst wonderful names like Asa Richardson, Summer and Rebekah Weston, Capt. Jonas Barnaby and Hannah Ruggles. From the other end of the cemetery, surrounded by trees, all I could see of Reading was the wooden town hall. Behind it, the sun threw up enormous streaks of orange, pink and red; it looked like the town, and maybe everything beyond it up to the rusty lip of the horizon, could be on fire. That was fine with...
...While they are going to be consideredseparately, our committee has been of course awareof them as they affect the total picture," shesaid. "We've been aware of the internal candidatesbut their positions are not amongst the sixpositions--they would be additional slots...
...Those three have got to be amongst the best in the region at their positions," Kingston said...
Last year the Crimson had a disappointing Eastern tournament. It finished third amongst varsity squads and lost to a few club teams. Because the team did not place in the top two it did not qualify for Nationals...
...early Italian Renaissance. Although they have taken different paths, Liz, Alix and Esther share a long friendship and common bonds dating back to their student days at Cambridge in the 1950s. "These three women," Drabble notes, "it will readily and perhaps with some irritation be perceived, were amongst the creme de la creme of their generation." What have time and circumstances done to the best and the brightest...