Word: beset
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ossie Solem, a pleasant middle-aged man who is head football coach at Springfield College, is subject to all the ulcerous worries that beset members of his profession--all worries, that is, save one. Ossie never has to bite his fingernails over how many reserves his team will have, for Springfield is a physical education college and everyone who is anyone plays football...
Conant also examines some of the financial problems which at present beset our educational system. Although "public education is a local responsibility and therefore must be financed at least in part by taxes raised in each community," Conant feels that Federal aid to public education may be required in states which cannot raise the necessary taxes...
Dick and Pat fought hard. Short of cash, they lived in a bare little house in Whittier and were beset by a smelly, cannibalistic brood of minks kept by the people next door (says Nixon: "I've never had any use for minks since then, the Truman variety or any other kind"). Against the advice of professional politicians, Nixon took on his opponent in five public debates before audiences largely favorable to Voorhis. Nixon argued against the evil deeds of the New Deal as effectively as he had urged the good works of the praying mantis and the syrphid...
...under Mars," said one of his crew the day Mars got the D.S.O. at Buckingham Palace, "you know you're all right." After the war Mars himself was less confident. In peacetime, he soon found, shoal waters and depth charges are not the only perils that beset a submariner. There was, for instance, the problem of how to make a home for his wife and two children on navy pay ($39 weekly...
...teens, driving voters of Norristown's old third ward to the polls in a buggy. In 1940 he was a sergeant-at-arms at the Republican Convention, a delegate in 1944, an alternate in 1948. As a convention veteran, he knows the emotional crises that can beset the delegate's mind. "Let us suppose that one man has 560 votes and the other 550. That's when you have to keep cool. You can't be huff-huffed into a wrong decision...