Word: beset
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With this issue, the Crimson begins a series of articles on post-war problems and planning by outstanding authorities on the tasks that will beset the peace commission. Basic to this project is the assumption of ultimate United Nations' victory. Equally fundamental is the assumption that planning for peace while war still rages is justifiable. It is true that, while the issue is undecided and post-war conditions may only be visualized, planning for the peace may only be tentative since it will lack the stamp of reality. What can be done is the focusing of public opinion upon...
...fugitive slave in the Stowe parlor; Harriet delivering a big, meant-to-be-timely speech-are poorly contrived, patly inserted. But Actress Hayes, acting with her usual skill, aging with her usual art, creates, if not a great and rounded woman, a bustling housewife who is also sore beset...
Martin conceived the idea of his invention when, during a recent rainy spell, he found himself beset on all sides by determined females wielding the sharp points of their umbrellas with deadly efficacy, so much so, in fact, that he claims he was forced to cower for an hour in a convenient doorway till the rush hour passed. Fervently he wished for some sort of apparatus which would protect him reasonably well from the all too accurate thrusts of the parasol brigadiers, so when he arrived back at his little den in Weld he set to work on the plans...
They had troubles. Some were running out of hairpins. Others had no more tinfoil for permanent-wave pads. They were beset by complaints of leg make-up that ran in the rain. Many were unable to reorder essential supplies-bubble baths, dyes, cellophane, bleaches, alcohol, shampoos...
...Injuries Beset Ends...