Word: beset
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before President Mohammed, as he picked Syria's first Cabinet, was a problem of another kind from that which beset Iran's Mohammed. No European powers were at the moment threatening his new republic, but there was plenty of dissatisfaction at home. For five years moonfaced, religious Mohammed el Hassani had haunted Paris, trying to be appointed Governor of Syria. His bowing and scraping to the French did not make him popular, particularly with Syria's ardent nationalists. Syrians last week looked for plenty of squalls as he tried to set up his Government...
America is beset by a confusion of conflicting propagandas, a Babel of voices...
...said Columbia University's Professor Clyde R. Miller when he started his Institute for Propaganda Analysis in 1937 on the fashionable wave of propaganda against propaganda. Last week the Institute itself was beset by conflicting propagandas. Its scholar-directors...
Glancing at the Caja de Seguro Obrero, as he must have done many a time in the last few critical weeks, Don Tinto could pull his bushy mustache and reflect on the dual perils which have beset his administration from its start. To the left of him was the danger that the Popular Front would disintegrate; to the right, the danger of another Sept. 5. Don Tinto's recent veto of two bills passed by Congress brought both perils upon him last week...
Beaten and trouble-beset France appeared to be heading toward a government dominated by four men--Laval, Admiral Darlan, Paul Baudouin, and General Charles Hunziger--with the aged Petain retaining full authority as Chief of State...