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Word: besetting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dining hall at South House, beset by numerous delays since construction began in late August, will be ready for occupancy in mid-June, five months after its scheduled completion date, Robert Thomas, manager of the Construction Management Division of the Harvard Planning Office, said Monday...

Author: By Alexandra D. Korry, | Title: South House Construction | 4/12/1978 | See Source »

...guitar, saying he has to get to one more gig. "But there are no more gigs for you," says the equally-strange woman in black as she pulls him down. Maybe the black-jacketed figure is Phil Ochs. Estranged from his wife, his children in school in Vermont, beset by space-shot gurus like Ginsburg, Mr. Tambourine Man must sit in Malibu and wonder the same thing

Author: By Joseph Dalton, | Title: Mr. Tambourine Man Goes to Hollywood | 4/6/1978 | See Source »

Birabeau (Laurie Main), who is an inanely unsuspecting cuckold. All the key figures converge on a kind of maison d'amour run by the lecherous Mme. Spritzer (Kathleen Freeman). There they are beset by an 1890 version of the Keystone Kops who have a devil of a time trying to fathom the traffic flow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Bed Check | 3/27/1978 | See Source »

Argan is also beset by his wife Beline (Stacia Zabusky), who wants to send Argan's daughters into a convent and collect their half of his money when he dies...

Author: By Joseph B. White, | Title: 'Invalid' Alive and Fairly Well | 3/14/1978 | See Source »

...December alone, nearly 2 million tons of sugar was imported, about six times the normal amount. With warehouses still bulging with surplus sugar, prices are expected to be depressed for months, a fact that may make housewives smile but is of no solace to the still beset U.S. sugar grower...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Farmers: Beet-Red, Raising Cane | 3/13/1978 | See Source »

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