Word: amidst
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...come amidst thundering and lightning...
...Scotland he organized the "Company of Scotland trading to Africa and the Indies." In 1698, "amidst the tears and prayers of relatives and friends and countrymen," he, his wife and child accompanied 1,200 colonists to Darien. They settled between Porto Bello and Cartagena, two strong Spanish ports, there intended to build a canal and establish a free trade route "whereby to Britain would be secured the key to the universe, enabling their possessors to give laws to both oceans and to become the arbiters of a commercial world." The Spanish soon drove the colony out. Paterson's family...
...knew him. He thumped his tail and drooped his ears forward, but lacked power to drag himself ever so little towards his master. However Odysseus saw him out of the corner of his eye and brushed away a tear. . . . He plunged into the house, going straight along the hall amidst the suitors; but Argos the dog went down into the blackness of death, that moment he saw Odysseus again after 20 years...
...Presidency and William Blank for the Vice-Presidency; 6) the steady, if somewhat reduced, flow of cash into the parties' respective campaign chests; 7) the noisy advancement of Senatorial candidacies in 32 or more States, of Congressional candidacies in all 48; 8) the creation of nation-wide issues amidst the pulsing roar of partisan oratory; 9) the march of some 37,000,000 citizens on Nov. 8 to the polls to elect the 32nd President of the U. S. and the 73rd Congress...
...mechanism of Chicagoans begins to operate and they wish to turn the subject of conversation away from politics and gangsters, one of the safest and happiest topics they can bring up is wonderful season of summer opera at Ravinia on the North Shore. There, in an all, fresco theatre amidst a sylvan park, stars from the Metropolitan and other leading companies sing nightly before large audiences. Ravinia is about 20 miles from Chicago, but the perfection of the music and the beauty of its setting lead thousands to travel there regularly by motor or train...