Word: beset
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even before Matthew Arnold brooded thus on Dover Beach in 1867, many Christians had been oppressed by a belief that Christianity was in a perhaps fatal decline, ailing within and sore beset from without. Indeed, the Dim View has been and is almost a cliché in press and pulpit...
...itself cut off from the Middle East, western Europe and the Mediterranean "by an iron curtain dropped by the Western powers." Russia, he said, is "denied the atomic bomb, denied warm water outlets, denied the common courtesy of economic negotiations with her greatest ally. . . . [Russia] is suspicious . . . beset by many fears...
...Ickes' husband" suddenly found himself boss of a $3,300,000,000 Public Works program. He was beset by fixers, agents, Congressmen. As well as he could-and he got pretty good at it-he repelled them. ("We have battled, toe to toe, with the avaricious and ruthless.") He presided with belligerent honesty over the Grand Coulee project, Boulder Dam, a vast $13,000,000 building to house his 4,686 Interior Department employes...
...strike of 3,000 A.F. of L. machinists at Stamford's Yale & Towne Mfg. Co. was in its third month. In seven states, workers at Libby-Owens and Pittsburgh Plate Glass plants stayed away for the twelfth straight week, crippling the supply of glass to auto manufacturers not beset with strikes of their...
Many a young ex-chaplain was beset by misgivings. Misgiving No. 1 he shared with mustered-out Americans of every sort, from radio stars to ribbon clerks: "Will I get a job?" Ex-chaplains too recently graduated from divinity schools to have had a parish and those whose pulpits have been filled by able successors feared they might have to sweat it out a long time...