Word: beset
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Control Loser. "The War Production Board in the early days had practically no control over the War Department and the Navy Department, both of which ran roughshod over the entire war production program. . . . Its Chairman [Donald Nelson] found himself beset . . . by an oil czar, a coal czar, a rubber czar, a manpower czar. . . . To correct this situation an Office of War Mobilization was created. . . . This Office failed to act as a directing and managing organization, but served rather as a referee waiting for disputes among various agencies to arise...
...Luxembourg Palace, Zinchenko sat through the long debates beside Molotov and Vishinsky. Whenever he left the Palace, his black portfolio tucked under the arm of his London-made suit, reporters beset him with questions. All evening long, his telephone rang in his small, untidy office at the embassy in the Rue de Crenelle...
Some of you seem to regard us as a court of last resort for settling your wagers on every conceivable subject. We are even asked to lighten the load of parents beset with the one-track vagaries of small boydom. Wrote one of them to us recently, in some desperation: "I have a ten-year-old son who (collects) military insignia. . . . For the past six months our name has been a byword in Downers Grove (Ill.). People start suddenly and streak for home when they see any of us approaching. No one is safe from our friendly, but firm...
...Little Sitwells. That childhood was so sheltered, so beset with nurses, governesses, tutors and eccentric relatives, that it is no wonder the three little Sitwells, grown up, confuse heredity-"that fragile scarlet tree we all carry within us"-with an extraordinary environment. Edith as a girl was hung with corrective clamps and braces, including a nose-shaper, and was forced to swing herself dizzy on rings and parallel bars...
...week when two great strikes were settled, an uneasy thought beset U.S. businessmen. Under the bullish rumble could be heard a bearish mutter. Deflation might not be too far away...