Word: beset
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...graduation day. Only four of the committee's seven members were present: Chairman Sam Ervin, Lowell P. Weicker Jr., Joseph M. Montoya and Daniel K. Inouye. Vice Chairman Howard H. Baker Jr. was home in Tennessee; Herman E. Talmadge was busy elsewhere; and Edward J. Gurney was beset by troubles of his own (see story page...
...agreement provides relief for economically depressed nations, like Italy, that happen to have large gold reserves. Many other financially beset countries, such as India, do not have large gold reserves. Thus, U.S. Treasury officials doubt that much gold will actually be used as collateral in the future...
Indeed, Shakespeare's themes remain as valid in the epoch of Henry K. as they were in that of Henry V. The vanished English world, like this one, was beset with crises. Scientists had just proved that the sun no longer orbited the earth; skepticism had been imported wholesale from Montaigne's France; religious wars had undermined faith...
...making a successful ascent. Thomas Pettigrew, a social psychologist at Harvard, believes that the middle class is gaining the "know-how to pass on from generation to generation." As it does, an increasing number of blacks will meet with whites on equal terms without the insecurities that beset both races. The best guarantee of durable, amicable race relations in America is the continued growth of a strong, self-confident black middle class...
...sometimes lagging. The single most important "over-view" consideration, then and now, sought to avoid polarization and to capitalize on a "community of purpose." "Something for everyone" is ambitious, but not to be taken lightly. Worth a try? One can recite a veritable litany of negative polarizations which has beset this planet in the last 30 years--Dachau through red-baiting; "flower children" through the movement against the violence of war; the struggle of minorities toward human dignity and now the "war of the sexes" which could be the biggest bag of all since it involves one half the human...