Word: beset
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...race was never in doubt. Avoiding the bad start that beset Radcliffe in its race against Yale last week, Radcliffe blasted past Middletown from the outset with an initial cadence of 39 for the first 15 strokes...
...consistent attack abroad. The Bonn meeting with Brandt, which has now been postponed until late April or early May, was regarded as especially urgent in view of the Common Market's increasing disarray and the growing rift in the Atlantic Alliance. At home, Pompidou's government is beset by alarming inflation, aggravated by the oil crisis, and the threat of widespread labor unrest...
...stop exploring new ideas and thoughts, even some of the most outlandish ones. If we had stopped in days of old and said majestically, "We know it all." life wouldn't be so much fun. The world would still be flat, the seas beset by monsters, and the moon would still be cheese...
...madman, nor is he running a fun house or shifting the population of a prison across a body of water. He is Chris Mahan, executive stage manager of the Metropolitan Opera, unwinding after a rehearsal of Berlioz's Les Troyens, the crown jewel in a season beset by financial and artistic problems. First performed last fall [TIME, Nov. 5], it is back again this month. The eleven performances are the first ever in New York City, and the work has been staged only twice previously...
...MANHATTAN a bus ride can transport you through different worlds. There are no actual boundaries, but each section of town has its own culture. Of all the neighborhoods, Harlem can often treat its inhabitants the hardest. Ceremonies in Dark Old Men is a vignette about a Harlem family beset by the frustrations of being black in the city...