Word: beset
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with them-faulty approach and damaging the leaflets of the valves. He worked out his own approach, first put his finger inside a human heart to open a scarred mitral valve in June 1945. Through an accident (no fault of Bailey's) the patient bled to death. Misfortune beset him in three other cases. Not until June 10, 1948 did he have a "good risk" patient at Philadelphia's Episcopal Hospital. Mrs. Melville Ward, 24, of East Orange, N.J., an invalid for five years, had been told she had six months to live. Bailey slipped his finger through...
Every department has its problems, but the English Department can boast of an astounding number of difficulties. As a result of heavy course requirements, tutorial structure, and internal organization of courses, the English major and especially the candidate for honors is beset by many unfortunate and some time unnecessary problems...
...itself a solution, although it would be a welcome change. Unless the tutorial bibliography pressure is reduced (or just removed) and unless the six periods requirement is eased or courses organized so that the periods can be covered more easily, the English major will still be beset by too many pressures...
...surprisingly frank plug for oldfashioned, small-screen, black-and-white films. Ross noted that CinemaScope is fine for sweeping horizons, but added: "If the subject ¶ has power and the scenes themselves are what you want to show, don't tinsel it up with CinemaScope." ¶Sorely beset, RKO peddled distribu tion rights to 44 films (including eleven not yet released) to prosperous rival Universal-International, hoped to save some $7,000,000 by the deal, wearily acknowledged that it is exploring a new source of revenue: the sale of oil under studio lots...
General Franco's notorious inability to think of any solution for the problems that beset Spain was never more in evidence than in the past month. A heavy-hoofed inflation is galloping through the Spanish economy. Franco's henchmen handed down two wage increases last year, and though they tardily ordered shopkeepers to keep prices pegged, the cost of living has leaped 25%. Last week, spurred by an announced 20 centimo (½?) rise in streetcar fares, the people of Barcelona (pop. 1,280,000) decided to make a protest. Word raced through the Catalonian capital...