Word: beset
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British and a few Americans, beset in India, grew tense at indications that the Japanese invasion forces in Burma awaited only the end of the monsoon rains this month...
Meeting in extraordinary session last night, the Phillips Brooks House Cabinet found itself beset with difficulties which made the conference one of the most unusual in years, and finally got down to business to discuss plans for next year...
...first catastrophe to beset the Cabinet was the less of J. Elden Sawhill '43, its president, who was forced to take to Stillman infirmary with an acute case of poison ivy. Then it was discovered that all the caterers in Cambridge had gone on their summer vacations and it was necessary to transfer the preliminary dinner from its traditional location in P.B.H. to Adams House...
...expected by the pacifists, many complications have beset them, even while they are at college. When the compulsory athletics program was initiated last spring the Association felt that conditioning classes were primarily for war preparation. Representatives conferred with William J. Bingham '16, director of athletics, who immediately permitted them to substitute other forms of exercise such as rowing and swimming...
...prop to totalitarianism, the new Cortes appeared to be no barrier to Juan's restoration. Possibly it is an evasion, but quite as likely it is a prelude. As king, Juan obviously would have to front for a sorely beset dictator...