Word: beset
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Treaty, putting the onus of Germany's defeat on the party that many nationalists already blamed for stabbing the country in the back by calling for the overthrow of the mon archy while the war was still going on. In 1928, another Socialist-led government took power. But Germany, beset by inflation and plagued by increasing political violence, proved ungovernable. After the Socialists resigned over cuts in unemployment insurance in 1930, the Weimar Republic fell increasingly under the power of the Socialists' enemies?the brown-shirted Nazis of Adolf Hitler...
...Beset as they are by snarled traffic and chaotic driving conditions, the citizens of Rome could scarcely believe the words uttered at Leonardo da Vinci Airport by the visiting dignitary. "The U.S. hopes to be able to benefit," said U.S. Secretary of Transportation John A. Volpe, "from Italy's well-known achievements in the field of transportation, and to cooperate in attacking the problems of rapid urban transportation." In Italy to call on the Pope and to visit his parents' birthplace at Pescara, Volpe had an embarrassing admission to make when he turned up half an hour late...
CHRISTABEL AND THE RUBICON is a whacky comedy by H. J. Moorman about a young girl beset by all the problems of young womanhood today - including the older man, the boy next door, and a bewildered father at the other end of the generation gap. Olney, Md., Aug. 26-Sept...
...endorse Ted's staying on in the Senate. As for his quest for the presidency, I believe that he could bring not only dedication and wisdom but a forward look, youth, vitality and the solution to the many problems that beset this country and the rest of the world. Ted is the best choice for peace and victory...
...American Stock Exchanges, which prohibit member firms from borrowing more than 25% of their capital from the outside. Though Nuveen plans to continue its brokerage activity through the Midwest Exchange, which has more lenient rules, the firm has laid off some 10% of its 450 employees. Meanwhile, McDonnell & Co., beset by financial and operating problems, recently sold one of its three Big Board seats (for $375,000) and laid off 70 employees, including about half of its research staff. To increase its capital to the level required by the New York Stock Exchange, the firm also borrowed $600,000 from...