Word: beset
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first full week of campaigning, Humphrey managed to summon up every demon that has beset him this year: his inability to focus on the essential, his failure to re-establish his independence of Lyndon Johnson, his lack of an efficient campaign organization, his troubles with the dissident Democratic left. Though not really prepared to mount a major campaign swing?Larry O'Brien had barely taken over as manager of a badly disorganized Democratic machine?Humphrey was dispatched willy-nilly to Pennsylvania, Colorado, California, Texas, Louisiana, Michigan, Delaware and New Jersey. Tired when he started, he made as many as nine...
Humphrey's own showing has lengthened the odds against him. He has been beset by bad luck and bad judgment. On major issues, he seems to play both sides of the fence or simply straddle it. Last week he told one Chi cago audience he would mobilize all the resources of the nation to maintain law and order, then told an interviewer less than an hour later: "You know and I know that law and order is es sentially a local problem." Having once dismissed the late Robert Kennedy's proposal of a role for the National Liberation...
...hulk of a man who leads his people's military effort and speaks for their pain. With an Oxford education, a rare gift for rhetoric and a deep sense of the tragedy encompassing the war, he is endowed with the best that the white man has given Africa and beset by the worst of Africa's many ills. Ojukwu is also probably...
Deep Commitment. Young and the league's leaders, straining to meet all but the farthest-out extremists halfway, zeroed in on two grievous weaknesses that beset black moderates: the lack of involvement in the slums by middle-class Negroes and deep-seated white racism. To Young, Alabama's Segregationist George Wallace "is as American as cherry pie." Replied Merchant Stanley Marcus, head of the famed Dallas Nieman-Marcus store: "We must have a deep commitment by a vast majority of the white citizens of this country that this is their problem." And when twoscore ghetto youngsters invaded...
Trudeau will have problems enough to deal with. Canada is beset by linguistic, cultural and economic differences that are exacerbated by the vast distances within the country. Its small population does not provide a large enough domestic market for a sustained economic boom. The income gap between the wealthy and the deprived, between the poorer and richer provinces, is still large and not shrinking fast enough...