Word: beset
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...time-honored tradition of bachelors who gloat early in a show, Wilson will soon be posting the banns-somewhere in the second reel, in fact. His intended is one Terry Kozlenko (Barbara Harris), who supports three children and a yapping mongrel on alimony checks. Once wed, Wilson is beset by miseries. His stepchildren are a mess. The boy is prey to countless nighttime fears, the younger of the two daughters stammers, and the older displays unmistakable signs of nymphomania. Terry's ex-husband (Jason Robards) visits disruptively. The dog snarls...
...limited that every city has its shack dwellers-while Italy has a surplus of empty luxury apartments. Hospitals are desperately overcrowded; schools are running on three shifts. Rome University, built to cope with 12,000 students, has an enrollment of 93,000. In short, the country this spring is beset by a host of troubles that its politicians seem unable to cope with. And now, after enduring 34 governments since Mussolini's fall, Italian voters will go to the polls once again next week to choose a new Chamber of Deputies that promises only more of the same...
...another, related to everything else. But all that this amounts to is the truism that there can be no absolutes in our moral judgment. Nothing is purely right or purely wrong; similarly, no one is entirely responsible or is entirely without blame for the many evils that beset us. Our values and our judgments are not only relative, but can only be practically employed in terms of degrees of intensity. In making practical ethical judgments two things are uppermost in our minds: the degree of voluntariness and the degree of relevance involved. No doubt a good proportion of my taxes...
...Harvard track team, beset by injuries, walkouts, and bad breaks, will attempt to break out of its spring slump this afternoon when it faces Dartmouth at Soldiers Field in the first home meet of the season...
...will fail to see the showman in Jack and recognize his limitations. But, like all thinking, feeling men, he is not blind to the problems that beset mankind and the imperfections of those who manage its systems...