Word: beset
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thirteenth printing, "General Education In A Free Society" achieves first honors as the 1946 best seller of the Harvard University Press. Concluding a year beset by paper shortages and printing difficulties, the Press nevertheless published 46 volumes, ranging from the esoteric "Spina Bifida and Cranium Bifidum" and "Tables of the Hankel Functions of Order One-Third and of Their Derivatives" to the more popular "Boston After Bulfinch" and "Serge Koussevitzky...
...alcoholic's hangover, says Dr. Lolli, differs fundamentally from that of a casual drinker: the alcoholic, after a drinking bout, is beset with uncontrollable tremors, nameless fears, insomnia, an enlarged liver, all sorts of neurotic digestive disorders. He badly needs food, because a prolonged diet of alcohol produces vitamin and mineral deficiencies...
Spectacularly filmed in the brilliant light of Mexico's West Coast, La Perla is the simple story of a fisherman who finds a tremendous pearl, is beset by sharpers and thieves who would do him out of it, and, discovering that the pearl brings him no happiness, hurls it into the ocean. These doings involve a heady quota of drinking, amorous women, killings, gun-toting chases over desert and mountains. That the action is reasonably accurate as well as artistic is attributable to tall, broad-shouldered Director Emilio ("El Indio"-The Indian) Fernandez, who knows what he is shooting...
...ever before in the history of this up and down American Economy. Income payments, now at a level of $161 billion, have decreased less than expected thanks partially to the efforts of the unions in their recent wage campaigns. The press has attempted to arouse sympathy for the strike-beset businessman. The lack of such conspicuous items as automobiles (caused by other frictions of reconversion as well as by collective bargaining breakdowns) has obscured the realities of the boom. First-quarter reports on corporate profits, compiled by the Department of Commerce, revealed that in some industries, as the Department...
...wreck was only 22 miles southwest of the great international airport at Gander. There, beset by fog, a Douglas Skymaster of the Belgian Sabena Lines had crashed one morning last week, New York-bound from Brussels. In the dense forest and quaking muskeg it might as well have been in the Congo. Swiftly and efficiently, one of the most complicated rescues in flying history got under...