Word: beset
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this weren't enough, a pentateuchal plague of minor flaws will further beset your mind. The ships that plow the Suez Canal were all built after the second war to end all wars. The clothes that Arthur Kennedy (a newspaperman with about as much compassion and insight as the Mencken-figure of Inherit the Wind) wears are contemporary with the ships. The music that attacks you stereophonically from every angle is winningly simple-minded: four thousand strings equal desert motif; four thousand strings plus two harps equal sea motif. The beginning, which shows O'Toole meeting his death...
Foredoomed Hope. For Macmillan, already beset by grave political and economic difficulties at home (see THE WORLD), the Sky-bolt decision threatened disaster. He had built his foreign policy around the idea that his nation's "special relationship" with the U.S. gave Britain influence in world affairs out of all proportion to its military and economic power. Before boarding a plane for the Bahamas, Macmillan managed a jaunty smile and cheerful words. "I have no doubt," he said, "that we shall find our way through our difficulties in the spirit of agreement we have always had with the American...
...cried O'Brien, "will be the determining factor in November. The Midwest holds the key." And they acclaimed O'Brien's peroration: "I say let the blood flow. We have the cause and our cause is right." But in their private, more candid moments, they were beset by doubts. "Realistically," said one, "we Democrats are faced with the basic problem that the votes aren't there. We made our score in 1958, when we had a lot of things going for us, like Ezra Taft Benson. The same climate isn't here today...
From Across the Aisle. Of vital aid to Mansfield was Republican Leader Everett Dirksen, who enjoyed the opportunity of bringing the G.O.P. to the rescue of a Democratic leadership so beset by Democratic dissidence. Dirksen worked tirelessly at rounding up Republican votes for cloture. Said he to his colleagues: "This is personal. I have to have your votes...
...always been late for everything, but her truancy was never heedlessness. Beset by self-doubt and hints of illness, she would stay alone, missing appointments, keeping whole casts waiting in vain. In the past year, her tardiness was measured in weeks instead of hours. In 32 days on the set of Something's Got to Give, she showed up only 12 times, made only 7½ usable minutes of film. When fired from the picture, she sent telegrams of regrets to all the grips...