Word: beset
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Imperialist Aggressive Troops from South Korea." The occasion is getting little recognition in South Korea, whose citizens are more concerned with their country's chaotic politics and reeling economy; beset by crop failures, scandals and corruption, the once puritan regime of Army Strongman General Park Chung Hee is in deep trouble. But Panmunjom celebrated the anniversary in its own way by holding the 175th meeting of the Armistice Commission...
While the railroads were prospering, management put up with the extra costs imposed by work rules. But by 1956, beset by shrinking profits, the railroads told the unions that the time had come to start revising the rules. After strenuous negotiations, the two sides agreed to shelve the issue for three years. When the three years expired in 1959, the railroads set out to alter the work rules. Featherbedding, said Daniel P. Loomis, president of the Association of American Railroads, is "a handmaiden of the ruinous inflationary spiral. For the good of all America, something drastic must be done about...
That boast seemed grotesquely inappropriate last week. Torn by bloody race violence, the city of Cambridge (pop. 13,000) was under martial law, its streets patrolled by a unit of the Maryland National Guard. As in many another city beset by the Negro revolt, responsible Negro leadership in Cambridge had suddenly given way before the thrust of militancy...
...last January, beset with financial and alcohol problems, Philby suddenly disappeared from his Beirut home...
There is a predictable pattern to the way the New York Yankees win the American League pennant every year. For the first two months or so they hobble along, beset by injuries and slumps, while other teams battle for the lead. Then about the middle of the year they pull themselves together, push the other clubs aside, and take over first place on a permanent basis...