Word: beset
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more information about Viet Nam than any of his critics, and he has considerable justification for cautious optimism. His field commanders report that the military effort is going on schedule. The enemy is now being so badly hurt in the South that it is Hanoi that should be beset by gloom. But this is beside the point. Johnson is still unable to communicate to the American people a sense of what the U.S. is doing in Viet Nam, how U.S. interests are at stake as well as South Viet Nam's, the reasons for sticking out a long, enervating...
...bunch o' furniture that cost me no more than $300 to start with, so the least they can do for me is give me a TV." Conot's characters-from Frye through Williams to the well-meaning but ineffectual welfare workers and Negro intellectuals-all appear beset by a sense of corrosive despair, which rendered them incapable of handling the horror that took 34 lives and caused $40 million in damage...
Taking a hard look at the longstanding problem, the influential Committee for Economic Development, a private, nonpartisan organization of 200 businessmen and educators, calls for a "sweeping renovation" of the states' obsolescent machinery. "The 50 legislatures are beset by crucial issues," says the committee in an 85-page study of American states, "but few are organized, equipped, qualified, or even empowered to perform their policy functions with distinction." Unless they shape up, it adds, the states will be unable to counter "any tendency toward monolithic centralization of power in the national government...
...Beset by war, the Vietnamese piaster fell 38.6%. That chronic invalid, the Brazilian cruzeiro, lost another 31.8% of its value in 1966, and thus would pay for only 2% of the goods and services it could command a decade...
...march of events. Let me, as the last step in this lengthy exercise, outline a feasible course of action which reduces our commitment in Vietnam to sensible proportions, protects the larger peace, conserves our national interest and, what could perhaps be more important, reflects the interest of the sadly beset and tortured people of this part of the world. And it is a policy that does not depend on the cooperation of Hanoi and the NLF, although should that be forthcoming all would be much eased...