Word: amidst
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nevertheless, the blackened plywood does spoil the effect of disguising the building amidst its surroundings. All Hancock can do now is wait until September 1974, when all the new single-paned reflective windows are installed, to see whether the effect will still be the same...
...Charles de Gaulle smashed a bottle of champagne across her bow 14 years ago, the 66,000-gross-ton luxury liner France has reigned as the seductive grande dame of the seas. The 1,035-ft. liner, longest in the world, could carry as many as 2,044 passengers amidst the splendor of spacious staterooms and marbled public salons. Her first-class dining room, where white-tied captains spooned out gargantuan portions of caviar, was praised as "the best French restaurant in the world...
...nearly two millenniums, the feast of Passover has been a lamp of hope in the dark night of Jewish existence. In ghetto and concentration camp, amidst pogrom or Inquisition, it has reminded Jews the world over that the Lord who led them out of Egypt would set them free again...
...Amidst the hubbub, Rote quietly took second place in the bicycle race. Having placed second in golf and taken top honors in tennis, bowling and swimming, Rote, 23, piled up more points than his older and more famous competitors. During the soccer season he had earned about $1,500 playing center forward for the Dallas Tornado. As a superstar champ, he collected $53,400. As a divinity student who aspires to the Episcopal ministry, he was nonplussed by the sudden lucre ("I feel almost embarrassed by winning"). He announced that he would give some of his winnings to charity...
Harvard sophomore Gordon Adler had really been ready for 1974. As a fresh-man, this feisty competitor battled his way onto the Carnival teams, and now he was in the second seed. For Friday's race he drew starting spot 14 out of 70 plus competitors. Amidst the downpour, Adler with his rimless spectacles looked like a scholarly water rat, as the took the lift up the mountain to get ready for his start...