Word: beset
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Nicaraguans were trying as hard as they could to appear beset, but the reality was somewhat different. A campaign organized by opponents of the regime was indeed under way. And it was an open secret that the contras, as they are known, were receiving advice and logistical assistance from the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. Yet, by Western diplomatic estimates, only 2,000 to 3,000 rebels were involved in the insurgency, far too few to oust the increasingly unpopular Marxist-led Sandinista government, which is named after a Nicaraguan nationalist rebel of the 1930s, Augusto César Sandino...
Last week the long struggle ended. Beset by kidney failure, chronic respiratory problems, inflammation of the colon and loss of blood pressure, Clark, 62, died quietly. The official cause of death: "circulatory collapse due to multiorgan system failure." The heart itself was in good working order at his death, having beat steadfastly nearly 13 million times. In the final days, Clark's doctors debated what steps they would take to preserve the patient's life: whether, for instance, it would be medically and ethically appropriate to try kidney dialysis on someone so ill. In the end, however, Clark...
...problems for the West. Still, however sophisticated he may be in his dealings with the outside world, Andropov cannot escape the restraints imposed on him by the security system he helped maintain at home. The Soviet Union may present a formidable facade to outsiders, but it remains a nation beset by fear of the enemy, both known and unknown. Andropov has surely believed for years that it is difficult to rule the U.S.S.R. with fear, but impossible to rule without...
Already, Ghana has been beset by chaos. The military has imprisoned and murdered at will, using its weapons on "opponents" of the regime, or anyone who happens to personally offend the wrong military leader. Fines are imposed arbitrarily, and citizens who have refused to pay have mysteriously disappeared, their charred bodies showing up shortly after...
...speech, did play it in a lower register; but little he said could be called inconsistent with previous pronouncements. Indeed, the President has succeeded remarkably in projecting the image of the absolutely predictable man, firm to the point of adamancy, a hard, if amiable, Mount Rushmore head beset with frantic, cajoling advisers, crawling in the ears, tugging at the hair, cooing, shoving, grunting, pleading, praying for a budge. But budge he does rarely, and then most reluctantly. He changes positions, but never his mind...