Word: amidst
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Amidst Confusion...
...terminated its project in Greece as a direct result of the colonels' 1968 coup amidst praise by the colonels and foreign investors of each other. The CRIMSON'S failure to mention this episode is particularly puzzling since its reporter specifically requested and obtained copies of correspondence between the DAS and the Greek military government terminating the project...
...have had to adjust rather fast, for it is not games you have been playing here during these years but rather the real thing. Yet amidst the upsetting alarums and excursions occasioned during your years in college by a determined few who have worked consistently to attract attention to themselves by misrepresenting what we are about, as you have gone ahead with your work, you have made clear one hopeful sign. That is, your generation's vigorous assertion that you will not be satisfied with a learning or a way of life whose most convincing credentials are only that they...
...nature, neurotic embroidery is immediately and obviously less beautiful than the embroidery of trees and sky. One finds infinite variations on green, changing by moments with the movement of the sun across the sky, far more sensible than finite, variations on truth or social reality that seem so convincing amidst a bankrupt landscape of buildings and asphalt...
...tense days the twin strings of steel cars loaded with deadly nerve-gas rockets cautiously wove through seven Southern states. On board, teams of chemical specialists rummaged amidst the exposed cargo testing for dangerous emissions. A dozen pigeons and rabbits -living alarm systems in the event of escaping gas-flopped in wire cages. Overhead, helicopters monitored the tracks ahead for rockslides and other dangers. In Waxhaw, N.C., a picket met one of the trains with a sign saying NERVE GAS MAKES ME NERVOUS. The biggest event of the twin odysseys came when one of the rabbits, named Panic, gave birth...