Word: beset
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...competition. At their meeting last week in France, Charles de Gaulle and Ludwig Erhard agreed that they must work together to persuade more French and German companies to merge so that they will prove a better match for the Americans. The Continent's 50-odd auto companies, beset by fierce competition and overproduction, are especially worried: Ford and G.M. together now sell about 1,500,000 cars and trucks a year in Europe...
...Carson Blake's 1960 proposal to merge four major Protestant churches into one seemed a lightning flash illuminating a hopeful abstraction, an ex citing new vision. Now the Stated Clerk of the United Presbyterian Church sees his idea as more possible than before, more urgent than ever, and beset by subtle dangers. Last Sunday, shortly after returning from a meeting of the World Council of Churches' Central Committee in Nigeria, he went to San Francisco's Grace Episcopal Cathedral, where he had first called for a united church "truly catholic, truly reformed, truly evangelical," and spoke...
...Many a Christian, disgusted by prosaic sermons, repelled by archaic dogma and beset by honest doubts, will find renewed hope in your Dec. 25 issue. No reform-social, political or religious-filters down from the top; it rises from the bottom, out of an undeniable need. For Christians of all sects your article has brought that need into sharp focus...
...Downs. Like the adults they really are, the children of Peanuts are beset by an assortment of griefs and fears. Charlie Brown's little sister Sally is afraid of kindergarten. Linus, refusing to memorize his piece for the Christmas pageant, knuckles under when faced with the imminent threat of his sister's cocked fist. The ungovernable loudmouth Lucy gets depressed by the thought that the world has downs as well as ups. "I don't want any downs,' " she bellows. "I just want 'ups' and 'ups' and 'ups.' " Even Snoopy...
There is nothing like a change of key to unlock a whole new career. At least such is the case of a tall Welsh lass named Gwyneth Jones. A year and a half ago she was a so-so mezzo, beset with a special problem: "My voice just kept going up and up." Why fight it, she thought. So presto change, the mez zo became a soprano...