Word: amidst
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Passed a $90,069,139 deficiency bill which provided, among other things, for soil conservation, 45 new agents and five clerks in the Secret Service to protect the President and his family amidst "conditions in this country arising as a result of the wars in Europe...
Little was it to be wondered then that when Victor announced Toscanini was doing the Fifth excitement should reign not only amongst critics and musicians but amidst the general music public as well. A victor official told me that he expected that this album would have the greatest sale of any comparable work ever issued. Reports began to come in of stores selling out their entire stock in a day, some of them even in an hour...
...expedition has to drag its heavy boats over forested hills to avoid the French on Lake Champlain; sloshes waist-deep in mosquito-infested swamps; forms a human chain to cross the rushing St. Francis River (actors were protected against chills by some 200 suits of watertight rubber underwear). Amidst repeated admonitions to caution, the Rangers make enough noise (once they explode a powder keg) to rouse half the Amerinds in North America. But the Abenakis pay them no mind. These obliging Indians have been on a bender the night before the raid, are sleeping it off when Rogers' Rangers...
...Amidst these vicissitudes Songsters Massey and Eddy find time to sing often and well. Ilona Massey sings words to The Young Prince and the Young Princess from Rimsky-Korsakoff's Scheherazade, a duet from Carmen with Nelson Eddy. He sings the Volga Boatman's Song in rumbling Russian, other Muscovite songs in English...