Word: amidst
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pistol shot cracked, the prisoner sagged and fell, breath rattling, a tiny hole in his shirt pocket. Holstering his .45, the lieutenant began to explain -in good English-that the fallen Ranger had pitched a grenade at his marines. He deserved to die. The prisoner lay on the ground amidst the debris of battle-spent brass, empty ration cans, cabbage leaves, broken glass. He was still alive, his eyes open but no longer seeing. One marine took off his own tattered boots and began to strip the dying man of his. Five minutes later the prisoner died, expression frozen, feet...
...Ireland newscast (which is not heard in Britain) begins with an overnight casualty report-a chilling recitation of bombings, shootings, killings. It ends with the day's diary of local events-choral-society meetings, flower shows, agricultural competitions-all testifying that some normal life does go on, even amidst the violence...
...point in the afternoon, someone climbed up one of the flagpoles around the Washington Monument and tore down a flag. He was quickly followed by others, who tore down the remaining flags and set them afire amidst cheers. Some, seated closer to the speaker's platform, expressed their disapproval...
...Amidst all the destruction, a small statue of the Virgin Mary remains unscarred among buildings, trees and tanks that were smashed and gutted; it has become something of a symbol of An Loc's agony and endurance. Another statue, of Jesus with arms out stretched, did not fare so well. Although most of it survives, the Saviour's right arm has been blown...
...among the Radical chic He's also a dollmaker whose work even the Times has stopped to review. I Fogarty hates priests, quarrels with an incomplete slob of a white and lives with a Manhattan bound groupte cum socialite Generally boisterous and malcontent Fogarty has only two bright sports amidst the soiled sheets and barroom props that upholster his life his son and his sex. His relationship to these the sole objects his reserence, is the main drift of the stors...