Word: beset
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...entering Freshman in the twenties found "college life" ample justification for getting a college education. The Freshman of the thirties was a more serious fellow, anxious to find in his courses the solution to the problems which beset his era. Towards the end of the decade he began to wonder whether that solution really existed. Now that war has climaxed the debacle, the Freshman of the forties is tempted to see in it the ultimate expression of his problems, and to feel that military victory is the final answer, military effort the final method. But the war is only...
Outnumbered 10-to-1 in the air, 3-to-1 on the ground, beset by natives who feared the Japs more than they liked the British, the Allies all but conceded the loss of Burma last week. As the retreating British prepared to demolish the oilfields and refineries in their rear, TIME'S Correspondent Jack Belden visited the front where Chinese troops defended Burma under U.S. command. His dispatch follows...
...Beset with the problem of reinforcing Singapore and The Netherlands East Indies, bound to back up Turkey in the Middle East, bound to meet the German wherever he showed up, the British had to make careful calculations in disposing their forces...
Voters in New York City will parade to the polls today in the climax of what has been the most sizzling mayoralty campaign in recent years. Entertained by the antics of this country's liveliest one-man gang, Fiorella LaGuardia, and beset by the fury of Tammany's revivified tiger, they will find themselves forced to choose between factions which are a lot more clearly delineated than the New York Democratic machine likes to admit...
...That Money Can Buy (RKO Radio) is what the Devil (Walter Huston) offers Jabez Stone (James Craig) for his soul. Beset by an unaccountable run of hard luck, the young New Hampshire farmer makes the hard bargain. For seven years (the term of his contract) he prospers. When his time is up, he begs Daniel Webster, the great Yankee lawyer (Edward Arnold), to save him. Daniel does...