Word: amide
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...choose, in a more obscure and humble position, against many difficulties and amid many humiliations, to continue my task in public life, it is because I want to spend the rest of my days and what is left of my strength in serving the people from whom I sprang...
Shortly afterward the measure passed amid the usual Fascist acclaim...
...seats, tiered like a grandstand, for the press. Above and over all, the unearthly white-green glare of mercury-vapor arcs. Conspicuous upon a red-draped raised platform, several uncouth persons in sweaters or shirt- sleeves, cranking unceasingly at cinema cameras. Such was the setting, dramatic and bizarre, amid which the famed Locarno Treaties* were signed at London last week...
...Amid an awkward pause, Dr. Luther and Herr Stresemann arose and quitted the gallery. A few minutes later Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain appeared and smoothed matters over as follows...
...Amid feverish excitement the vote was taken. M. Herriot, President of the Chamber, feared it would be so close that he descended to the floor contrary to precedent and cast his ballot for the measure. The count gave M. Briand a bare majority of six-a margin so slim that except in an emergency the Cabinet would have felt called upon to resign...