Word: beset
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many a U.S. businessman is beset by the nagging fear that wartime controls will be kept on postwar industry too long for the nation's good. But last week businessmen were firmly told that what they should really fear is that controls may be dropped too soon...
Double Feature. In Mexico City, cinema house employes, beset by union troubles, enraged audiences by running pictures without sound, sound without pictures...
...Among his diplomatic victories he could list such achievements as the reciprocal trade agreements, the Good Neighbor policy, the 1943 Moscow Declaration and the Dumbarton Oaks agreement. The Hull failures have also been impressive. In success or failure, Mr. Hull usually preserved his native dignity. That dignity was sore beset when Franklin Roosevelt torpedoed the 1933 London Economic Conference from under him. It did not desert him (though it called to its aid some white-hot Tennessee cuss words) when Pearl Harbor caught him politely conferring with two grinning Japanese diplomats. It kept him at least outwardly calm when...
...Stalin with the opposition, and buys the postage stamps for his enormous correspondence in ?5 lots. He orders them from the village postmistress on a three ha'penny postcard. She sells the postcards to his fans for 10s. 6d. apiece. This is typical of the economic contradictions that beset the old socialist, and of which he discourses in his new book...
...Great Trek Resumed. On all these roads and paths last week, millions of China's sorely beset coolies, tradespeople and artisans poured westward, seeking the safety which for so many years has eluded them like a mirage. China's exhausted, tattered soldiers fingered their last handfuls of cartridges, momentarily expecting attack by enemy patrols. Red-eyed, grimy American ground crewmen worked around the clock to keep Chennault's planes flying...