Word: amidst
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jordan River, also took a heavy toll. Near Hebron on the West Bank, Arab terrorists ambushed a busload of Americans on a tour of holy places, killing a 31-year-old housewife and wounding two other women. In the town of Gaza, two grenades intended for Israelis landed amidst Arabs. All told, terrorist attacks killed three and wounded 51. On the battle line, by contrast, two Israeli soldiers died and five were wounded in Egyptian shellings and bombings...
...incident is no longer a subject for jurists," said Tokyo University Professor Hideo Fujiki. "It's already one for the historians." Not quite. The incident occurred in 1952, when 6,000 demonstrators shouting "Yankee go home!" and demanding a new government clashed with 1,000 police amidst the fragrant pine groves and the graveled walkways of the plaza outside Tokyo's Imperial Palace; two died and more than 1,400 were injured...
Definition of Excitement. The show is intended to explore fresh solutions to the city dweller's need for solitude amidst the city's crowded spaces. "We found a vast response on the part of artists, designers and psychologists," says Museum Director Paul Smith. "Artists are increasingly interested in working on a large, environmental scale, and the subject of contemplation seemed to give focus to many of their ideas." To coordinate the various projects, Gamal El-Zoghby, an Egyptian-born architect and instructor at Pratt Institute, designed a dark, mazelike passageway leading from one environment to the next...
...these new "West of Suez" alliances do not presage formal political ties, however, they set the stage for close military and economic cooperation with Libya and the Sudan. On top of that, having lost considerable prestige at the recent Arab summit in Rabat, Nasser was seeking to recoup it amidst the cheering Libyans and Sudanese...