Word: beset
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...leave him a titleholder of little consequence. John Kennedy faced such a time at the Bay of Pigs only three months into his term. He shouldered the blame, wresting admiration finally from a dreadful mistake. In the fall and winter of 1965, Lyndon Johnson, enervated by his gallbladder removal, beset by the rising horror of Viet Nam, let himself be guided by his melancholy nature into the deception and self-pity that eventually forced his retreat to Texas. Oddly, Richard Nixon's time came in triumph. After his victory in 1972, he went to Camp David and there...
Spring was still silent in parts of New England and the Midwest, beset by low temperatures and snow. In the tiny hamlet of Sears Pond, near Watertown in northern New York, an incredible 42 in. of snow remained on the ground, but no wonder, since residents there were claiming they had measured an alltime record winter snowfall for an area east of the Rockies: 450 in. Let out of their stalls for the first time in months, local cows kicked up their heels like horses...
...devoted moviegoer, the nephew might have foreseen the all too predictable misadventures that beset him on his quest. His billion-dollar journey is a veritable clearance sale of Hollywood comedy-adventure clichés. He is conned, harassed, rolled, clumsily kidnaped, chased across the landscape, and jailed by a redneck sheriff. His putative protector in San Francisco, ripely played by Jackie Gleason, is in fact a devious executive who covets the conglomerate for himself. Gleason dispatches Valerie Perrine, as an implausible private eye, to wangle power of attorney out of Hill, but instead, of course, she falls in love with...
Ajootian has been a standout in an indoor track and field season constantly beset by landslides. Coming off last year's team has only managed to eke out a paltry 1-3 record and a poor showing in the championship meets. Coach Bill McCurdy, after it was all over, described the injury-plagued team's performance as disheartening...
Arthur Beale, Conservator of the Fogg, is constantly beset with urgent phone messages about paintings, Botsettis (delicate gilded clay figures) and other treasures needing attention. Beale supervises a staff of 1 conservator scientist, 6 professional conservators, an administrative assistant and 6 apprentices or interns. Science serves Art in the four laboratories on the fourth floor of the Fogg. In rooms filled with jars of chemicals and glues, equipped with machines like an infra-red spectrophotometer, Beale's crew works to preserve the Fogg's treasures...