Word: beset
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That way has often been hard and rocky, beset by depressions and a virtual government dictatorship. But last week Newfoundlanders once again were promised a chance to vote on their future...
...Beset by these difficulties, garment makers had no idea how long it would take to get production up to 1941's 24 million suits (1945 output: eleven million suits). But they do expect that demand this winter will be greater than ever. One reason: several million veterans will need new suits and overcoats before Christmas...
...Juan Quilligan (20th Century-Fox), a study in the farcical consequences of bigamy, examines the temptations which beset a none-too-bright barge captain (William Bendix) at each end of the Brooklyn-Utica haul. In Brooklyn, Captain Quilligan falls for a barmaid (Joan Blondell) who laughs and sings just like his sainted mother (rest her soul). In Utica, he is hopelessly enmeshed by a homebody (Mary Treen) whose cooking is more wonderful than anything the captain has tasted in the ten years since mother passed on (rest her soul...
From the time they meet in the theater's bomb cellar during an alert, Rosalind's affair with her flyer is beset by the uncertainties, urgencies and misunderstandings of war, and by the jealousy of a young 4-F dancer (Marc Platt) whom she has coached to a featured spot in the show. But in the end the flyer proves faithful (he was away on a secret mission), the young dancer dies in a bombing, and Rosalind carries on with the show while her new husband goes off to the wars again...
Besides bombs, the Japanese now have OWI radio propaganda to dodge. Beset by a new station on Saipan, near enough to reach ordinary sets on standard wavelengths, Tokyo last week countered with a bedtime message: "Let's turn off the radio," cooed an announcer, "as soon as [our] broadcast is over." He pointed out that his little listeners could thus "restore their vitality ... by going to bed as soon as possible," and could make their radio sets last longer "by giving them rest." (Just to make sure, Japan tried to jam the Saipan broadcasts...