Word: amidst
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were succeeded by more assertive youths, who symbolically displayed their rejection of society's established values at Woodstock. During the decade, more and more groups seemed to drop out of the national consensus, and a belligerent rhetoric of protest and revolution swept the country. Amidst the chaos, it was not easy to find a common theme. Yet the dominant events of the decade did fall into a historically recognizable pattern-a pattern of romanticism...
...Amidst the slobbering roar of a capacity crowd at McHugh Forum, Boston College's hockey team came off the ropes in the final period with four goals to send an erratic Harvard squad to its second consecutive one-goal loss, 6-5, last night...
Real and Horrifying. What they got instead was a realistic and sometimes horrifying account of J.T., a Negro boy played by Kevin Hooks, son of N.Y.P.D.'s Robert Hooks. J.T. is trying desperately to grow up in Harlem amidst peeling paint, dank buildings, rubbish-filled lots and a way of life that is guaranteed to turn any American Dream into a nightmare. He steals a transistor radio, then befriends a decrepit street cat. He is set upon by two older boys determined to steal the radio from...
...Crimson's attack was seriously impeded for most of the game by sloppy passing and difficulty getting the puck out of its own zone. B.U. displayed extremely aggressive play in the Harvard zone and scored four of its goals amidst confusion around the Crimson...
...arms of his old sweetheart, glancing terrified over his shoulder at the advancing shadow, we regret that he ever strayed from her side. For an instant the distinction between right and wrong is enforced amidst a world where all actions are beautiful. We, too, momentarily renounce that perverse attraction to the beauty of orgies and opulent settings that leads...