Word: beset
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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NOTHING IS guaranteed to make an audience feel more awkward than a joke which doesn't work. The captive spectator, forced to watch a fellow human being struggling for laughs where few are to be had, is constantly beset by nagging questions and self-doubt. Why am I here? How can it be that I have paid to see this? How far away is the exit...
Aging Leaders. Much of Israel's uneasiness seems to be the result of a basic lack of confidence in the country's tired, aging leadership. Beset by painful bouts of shingles (a virus infection of the nervous system) and an inflammation of the eyelids, Prime Minister Meir, now 75, has been largely out of sight for weeks at perhaps the most critical time in her political career. Though her new government is stable enough in the short run, new elections will probably have to be called before the term of the current parliament expires in 1977. Many Israelis...
Like thousands of other proprietors of motels, restaurants, travel agencies, airlines, resorts and ski areas from New Orleans to Nice, Fullmer is a casualty of the world fuel shortage. The traveling public, beset by uncertainty over flight cancellations, filling-station closings and gasoline-rationing schemes, is staying home in droves. As a result, the travel industry, which accounts for $60 billion a year in the U.S. alone, is hav ing one of its most chilling winters...
...past, the grand jury-selected annually to investigate the city government-has praised the schools. This year's blistering indictment is just one of many attacks on a school system that is becoming increasingly beset by troubles as pervasive as the city's fogs. Since 1969, reading and math scores for San Francisco students have been dropping steadily; they are now well below national norms. School board meetings are repeatedly disrupted by noisy, contentious community factions attacking each other, the board and Board President Eugene S. Hopp. At a recent meeting, police had to quell a minor riot...
Britain this week was a country beset by a crisis on top of a crisis. The nation's 270,000 coal miners walked off the job at the start of the week, and Prime Minister Edward Heath launched a three-week election campaign to fight for his political life. For Britons, the prospect for the lingering weeks of winter was for more sacrifices, as the nation headed toward a divisive election and potentially disastrous coal shortages. While no one was predicting that they would not find the resilience to weather this latest avalanche of troubles, there was no question...