Word: beset
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wednesday, December 2 CBS NEWS SPECIAL (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).- Japan's top cameramen explore the lives of five Japanese from different strata of society, all beset by the problems of adjusting to the nation's increasingly Westernized way of life...
...break the Red grip on so many Italian cities and towns. In next week's municipal elections, 6,724 communities will vote for local officials, and sharp Communist gains could bring down the virtually paralyzed center-left coalition government of the Christian Democrats and Socialists. While Italy is beset by inflation and strikes, the coalition parties are campaigning largely on the argument that Communists are Communists, one using Khrushchev's ouster to underline the point; the Christian Democrats even put up portraits of Khrushchev, Malenkov, Stalin and Mao right in Rome's Via Veneto to recall...
...INDIA.-beset by food shortages, corruption and mismanagement, with Red Chinese troops solidly dug in along the 14,500-square-rrwle border area they tested two years...
...PHILIPPINES: firmly tied to the U.S., with local Communists reduced to an insignificant handful, but beset by economic troubles and worried about Chinese and Indonesian expansion...
...China: "Our candidate has not yet mentioned that it was during the Kennedy-Johnson years that the blue whale became commercially extinct." ∙The Wichita, Kans., Eagle affected dismay after Johnson kissed a baby: "Is it proper for the President to expose himself to the afflictions which beset the nursery crowd? Measles or whooping cough in the White House could have repercussions for the whole free world." ∙The Washington Star was amused by the Johnsonian declaration that "for the first time in history, profits are higher than ever before": "With the above offering, the Chief has taken his place...