Word: beset
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Adding to Park's worries is a National Assembly election scheduled for next month, which his Democratic-Republican Party will be hard pressed to win. Neither is he expected to go overboard in any new policies of "independence" from the U.S. South Korea's struggling economy is beset by inflation that has hiked prices 40% in the past year, and Washington aid dollars, which came to $344.4 million in fiscal 1962, finance almost half the national budget. Besides, Communist North Korea still bristles across the 38th Parallel...
...interior of Brazil, that is what the Peace Corps meant last year. By August of this summer, the Brazil project had already set a record for the highest drop-out rate in a single Peace Corps program. The project suffered a severe case of the ills that beset the Peace Corps around the world during its first two years. The Brazilian example proved how easily the Great Idea could turn into a miserable experience...
From its inception Project Apollo has been beset by difficulties, not the least of which is the time limit on the program. The technological problems involved in the moon effort have made it evident to scientists both in and out of NASA that the target date will not be met. With the officially planned expenditure, 1971 is a more realistic estimate. Furthermore, there has been growing public and political opposition to the immense Apollo budget. Senator Fulbright summarized these views in Congress last week, nothing that the results of moon exploration "are remote and incalculable, and the need for schools...
...this Frost seems comic most of the time, the book offers one brief, chilling hint that Frost's relentless self-preoccupation lay at the heart of the tragedies that beset most of the people close to him. His sister and one of his children went insane; another daughter died from tuberculosis. After failing at farming and writing, Frost's only son Carol shot himself. Frost had spent the previous night assuring the boy that he was not a failure. Duly reported to Louis Untermeyer, Carol's last words to his father have a ring of true horror...
...meeting in Baltimore this month, top school officials from Northern cities gathered to talk over a grave and insistent problem: mounting Negro pressure against de facto school segregation. Conspicuously absent was a big-city educator who is acutely beset with segregation difficulties-Chicago's School Superintendent Benjamin C. Willis...