Word: beset
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last moment the U.A.W. made some concessions. But G.M. said that Reuther had merely trimmed his package demands "from a fantastic 73? an hour to an exorbitant and highly inflationary 48?." Altogether, G.M. was beset with 9,450 demands from U.A.W. locals-most of which will be settled by local G.M. and union officials. Some of them...
Newsstand sales of Confidential, once pegged at 3,600,000, went from bed to worse, were down to around 1,000,000 this week when Harrison announced he was chucking the whole business. The price? "Just say that it was enough," sighed Harrison, who is still beset by libel suits totaling $28 million. The new owners: a syndicate headed by cocky Hy Steirman, 36, who claims, "I've edited 1,000 second-rate magazines." Steirman announced plans to slip his new properties some pep pills. "The new Confidential won't look under beds...
Died. Alvan Tufts Fuller, 80, onetime (1925-29) Republican governor of Massachusetts, who backed up the state judiciary, decided not to delay the electrocution of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti beyond Aug. 23, 1927; in Boston. A wealthy auto dealer (Packard) and onetime (1917-21) U.S. Congressman, Fuller was beset by pressure from near and far to intervene in behalf of the condemned men. After he appointed a committee headed by Harvard President A. Lawrence Lowell, which reviewed all testimony and supported the jury's decision that Sacco and Vanzetti were guilty of murder, the New York Times editorialized...
Space near the earth is not as beset with micrometeorites as some space pessimists have feared. During last week's Washington meeting of the American Physical Society, Drs. Edward Manring and Maurice Dubin of the Air Force Cambridge Research Center told about the experiences of the Army's satellite Explorer I, which carries two meteorite detectors. One of them, a microphone that picks up the slight vibrations in the satellite's shell that are caused by the smallest dust particles, registered only seven hits during the 120 minutes that the transmitter could be heard. The other detector...
...adventures of the man himself which, above all, make this story an entertaining, moving, and important one. While never surrendering the rigorous standards of a great analytic philosopher, Russell has been deeply and outspokenly "involved," "committed," "existentially concerned" with the dilemmas that have beset his age. He has realized that it is precisely because the areas philosophers so often forfeit to politicians and theologians are murky, irrational, and vague, that thinkers professionally concerned with clarity and logic should not hesitate to comment on them--and even, if need be, to come out of the study and crusade...