Word: beset
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Beset by Stalemate." It was by far the hardest-punching attack that Kennedy has ever aimed at Ike. One reason for the surge of bellicosity was that Kennedy himself had been getting punched of late. The week's election news was worrisome. In Michigan, the voters adopted the new constitution that Republican Governor George Romney had been battling for, and the victory both brightened Romney's luster and dimmed the prospects that Kennedy will carry Michigan in 1964 as he did in 1960. In Chicago, Mayor Richard Daley, who helped Kennedy mightily in his close squeak...
Meanwhile, ACT's Harlem headquarters was beset with organizational problems. Pressed to meet a deadline, the group submitted a budget that called for $157,000 in staff salaries; many of the jobs called for were never set up. There were other difficulties with the budget; a recruiting director with a salary of $13,000 a year had no money for recruiting. Funds necessary to pay the volunteers' way to New York were seriously underestimated. Ten jobs with salaries of $10,000 a year or more were set up; the average ACT worker's $8,000 salary was almost twice...
Though the action covers less than a day in the life of Dr. Matthew Carter, this new novel is practically a shooting script for a new TV series. All the elements of Casey and Kildare are abundantly present: 1) gruff-seeming doctors beset by demanding patients, 2) flippant nurses, 3) crisp dialogue given a spurious weight by repetition ("Are you sure? Are you absolutely sure?" "Yes, we're sure"), and 4) big, dramatic scenes in the operating room with the surgeon rapping out such commands as "Toothed forceps and a knife with a number eleven blade...
...cold, the price of oranges is already up from 20? to 24? a pound, and the price of frozen orange juice has jumped from 20? to 30? a can. If the housewife has cause to complain, the citrus industry's laments are somewhat muted. For an industry chronically beset by overproduction-and still selling off the remains of last year's record crop-the freeze was something of a deliverance...
...student beset by doubts about his intellectual worth, the role of guidance can be crucial. Because they cannot derive the satisfaction which comes from obtaining the highest grades, academically average students tend to rely heavily on the influence of teachers for stimulation and direction, Whitla says...