Word: beset
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Aware is the expedition of the obstacles to such a route, worst of which are on the Canadian side, where perilous Hudson Bay fogs and shifting pack ice beset the air traveler. (No one has ever flown from Greenland across the Davis Strait to Baffin Land.) It is recalled that in 1924 the U. S. Army round-the-world flyers required 19 days to pierce the fogs between Keland and Frederiksdal, on the south coast of Greenland; and that last summer Capt. A. Ahrenberg finally abandoned an attempted Sweden-to-New York flight after taking a month between Sweden...
Some parents, over-indulgent or deaf, apparently, make no such efforts at disciplining their sons, for we are continually being beset by adolescent editions of the noise-loving child. The older this species grows, the more obnoxious it becomes. The worst manifestation, perhaps, is in the roaring of motorcycle engines or automobile motors with...
...presents Shakespeare that lacks glamour but makes sense. His Hamlet and Shylock are thoroughly understandable men beset by "equally perceivable woes. His Petruchio is an excruciating shrew-tamer. During his first Manhattan week he also played Macbeth, Malvolio (Twelfth Night), Richard...
...would be idle to deny that organized religion is sore beset in the present age. Agnosticism and atheism are on the rise...
...foxes on the Dalton farm were troubled by few of the worries that beset fox-farmers now, such as parasites, ear mites, worm trouble, tailmites, thieves. They were killed, usually late in December, by the weight of a man's foot placed over the lungs or heart so as to leave no blood stains on the fur. Their skins were sold at fabulous prices until fur dealers in Prince Edward Island investigated, bought Charlie Dalton's business and 20 pairs of Charlie Dalton's foxes for $500,000. The highest price ever paid for a fox skin...