Word: beset
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...antisocial, antigovernment, anti-American; the Japanese are anti-American; therefore Willie is a Jap . . . Willie took it literally. Soon his seat was vacant. It continued vacant. Then Willie was haled to juvenile court for truancy. ... He screamed and went into tantrums at the mere mention of school. He was beset with nightmares wherein he was a Jap, rejected, persecuted and tortured by American children and by his teacher...
...recently announced that many movie managers are hard beset by juvenile delinquents. In Berkeley they caused a $35,000 fire. In one Oakland theater they caused four fires on four successive nights. Some exhibitors write the parents of offenders, but "in the more exclusive suburbs they are fearful of offending... " Ushers, usually kids themselves, are usually helpless. One Cleveland manager "turned the tide" by exhibiting in his lobby a ravaged seat under the slogan "Vandalism Is Treason." One Philadelphia theater was harassed by a gang of small fry "led by a six-year-old boy who crawled under seats, opened...
There was one other great problem which beset the Commander in Chief. He himself had had no training in General Staff work. With a nucleus of trained officer graduates from Fort Leavenworth staff school, he established a General Staff school in Langres, France, and turned out men trained in supply and administration-537 of them...
Other difficulties have also beset potential chroniclers of the doings of the A-L mob. For instance, there's the darndest amount of hush-hush which must surround our pursuits (including the extra-curricular ones, of course). All we can say is that the boys are learning xxxx xxxx xxxx, and studying all there is to know about...
Says FORTUNE: ". . . by and large, the schools have done too little because they have had too few funds. . . . The schools are constantly beset by pressure groups who want to see the tax rate lowered...