Word: beset
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wretched Humanity, terrorized in China, Southern Arabia and Yemen; dying of hunger in India and Palestine; beset by war in Nigeria, the Near East and North and South Viet Nam; stifling in slums and poverty the world over; and enslaved in East Germany and countless other nations...
...judge by the official government press, all but nine of the country's 26 provinces and regions are beset by some degree of unrest. Peking has officially described the province of Kirin in Manchuria as "very disturbed" and warned the citizens of far northern Heilungkiang, which is rich in both industry and agriculture, that "bad elements are trying to sabotage the people's dictatorship and spread lies and rumors." In Inner Mongolia, counter-revolutionary bands have sprung up, murdering, sabotaging government installations and passing out anti-Mao leaflets. Mao Tse-tung's men charge that...
...extra weight class, 118, which Captain Andy Kopecki will drop down to fill. In his old 123 slot, John Moss will get a start. The rest of the line-up probably will be the same one that faced F&M last week. Star junior Danny Naylor is still beset with a leg injury, and sophomore Bruce Goodman is slated again...
...American political system--increasingly beset with violence--is approaching a crisis, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, director of the Harvard-M.I.T. Joint Center for Urban Studies, said last night...
...their obsolescent turboprop TU-114s against the much faster (600 m.p.h.) Boeing 707-320C jetliners that Pan Am plans to use on the runs. The IL-62, with a 560-m.p.h. cruising speed only slightly slower than the Boeing, was the obvious Soviet answer, but it had been beset by bugs ever since its maiden flight...