Word: beset
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fiery American preacher as he prowled the stage with Bible held aloft, "but it doesn't matter, because you're going to a better place anyway!" To many of his eager listeners in a San Salvador stadium, the distant hope of heaven may have been at least momentarily alluring, beset as their nation has been by a seven-year guerrilla war and a moribund economy. When the preacher later assured them that "terrible times are coming," the applause of approving believers reached a thunderous peak...
...other public-service strikes that have disrupted the country for a month. Not only was the typical Frenchman's mood even sourer than usual, but there were numerous signs that French political life, and daily life for that matter, was Italianizing at the edges. The successive crises that have beset the nine-month-old conservative government of Premier Jacques Chirac began to look like those of Italy -- not the Italy of recent political stability, but the once notorious Italy of disorder and unpredictability in the 1970s...
...surely was. Flying mostly at altitudes of 8,000 ft. to 15,000 ft. and averaging 115 m.p.h., Voyager was beset by storms that battered the plane and severely jostled both pilots over stretches as long as 18 hours. The most precarious moment occurred near the end of the voyage, over western Mexico, when the plane's rear engine, the only one running at the time, temporarily died. Over the next 90 sec., before the front engine was started to compensate for the loss, the craft plummeted from 8,500 ft. to about...
...Bank town of Nablus. At first it was assumed that the boy had died after Israeli soldiers fired into a crowd of rioters. Later it appeared that he may have been shot by a carful of local Israeli settlers. Either way, his death symbolizes the confusion and chaos that beset the West Bank as it undergoes the worst round of violence there since the spring...
...other colleges beset by recent sports scandals, the reform zeal burns with varying intensity...