Word: beset
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...anti-Stokes support that would have gone to Garofoli now gravitated to Perk. While both Pinkney and Carney were unfolding detailed plans to help cure the city's financial problems. Perk based his entire campaign on a law-and-order, anti-corruption, anti-Stokes platform. In a city beset by critical problems of health, housing, and unemployment. Perk had the gall to stand before the City Club four days before the election and announce that his number one priority was improving recreation facilities. He and Carney spent the campaign throwing mud at each other, and Perk's aim proved better...
...rich but raw instant history, Oberdorfer devastatingly exposes the illusions about supposed enemy weaknesses that beset the American military command in 1968. Although U.S. officials in Saigon knew well in advance that a general offensive was being planned, they refused to believe that the North Vietnamese could mount one. The Communist general order of attack was intercepted and then published as a U.S. embassy press release-25 days before Tet began. Still, the order was officially dismissed as "internal propaganda" designed solely to inspire the Communist troops...
...real test, however, came when the Crimson traveled to Dartmouth for their first away game. Dartmouth's superior speed and size proved too much for the Yardlings, who were beset with injuries. Dartmouth upended Harvard...
...limited success. Before the Soviet Premier arrived, Trudeau mused: "Every week I have people demonstrating against me on Parliament Hill. If he comes, he'll have to expect a good deal of that." He was putting it mildly. Almost from the moment he arrived, the Soviet Premier was beset by demonstrators from among Canada's 173,000 Jews, 473,000 Ukrainians and various Eastern European minorities. Ottawa police found a bomb near the Soviet embassy and eleven Molotov cocktails in a nearby park. More than 7,000 Canadian Jews marched through Ottawa demanding free emigration for Soviet Jews...
...forces of the Catholic King James II in 1688. Such celebrations are not merely reminders of a rich heritage; they are also reassertions of dominance over the Catholics of the north and of vigilance against the Catholics of the south. Both of Northern Ireland's tribes are beset by a siege mentality: Ulster's approximately 500,000 Catholics feel politically powerless at the hands of its 1,000,000 Protestants; the Protestants in turn feel threatened by the 2,700,000 Catholics of the Irish Republic to the south...