Word: beset
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under that low ceiling Author Hutchinson flies the higher of the two. He does a sort of subdued version of Noel Coward's noisy Cavalcade, conducting an English clerical family through the first three decades of the 20th Century. Always a ready hand with the Gentle Soul beset by the Stupid Community (notably in If Winter Comes), he plays it now in the Rev. Gordon Brecque, his patient service of his God, and his vicissitudes. The pre-war era is largely consumed by watered-Dickensi-an childhood episodes; during the post war years two children marry stodgily...
...world is beset with problems which badly need thinking through. First problem, say professional thinkers-i.e., philosophers-is how to go about thinking at all. Two new books attack the impasse. Bertrand Russell pursues An Inquiry into...
...Best earnings news came not from a defense-plump Eastern road but from grain-carrying, often drought-beset Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe. In August 1938 Atchison broke a 38-year precedent by failing to pay a preferred dividend. Last fortnight its common made the news. To the surprise of Wall Street dopesters who had expected nothing from its nine month's profits of only 11? a share, Atchison declared its first common dividend ($1) since 1937. Conservative Atchison directors never pay common dividends unless business is good. The dividend was taken as a sign of better times...
Largely the creation of Interlocutor Johnson, a onetime adman, Vox Pop got under way over station KTRH in Houston, Tex. during Franklin Roosevelt's first Presidential campaign. In its early career, Vox Pop was beset by drunks and loquacious looneys. Nowadays the show is conducted with propriety in Rotary Clubs and similar establishments. Its schedule calls for attendance at private parties and national events of all descriptions...
Said the President: "This progress of the last seven years has been mighty difficult. It has been beset by obstruction and by bitter propaganda from certain minority groups. . . . You will remember that kind of opposition in the campaign of four years ago [from] . . . certain employers, politicians and newspapers-all of whom are now active in this campaign...