Word: besetting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard's flu-beset lightweights have been having troubles of late, and things were no different against Cornell. Dave Albert (118lbs.) escaped with a 4-4 tie, but Milt Yasunaga (126lbs.) was pinned for the second time in as many days...
Dacca early this month announced a forthcoming exchange of ambassadors. Pakistan has also been beset by recession, soaring inflation (25% a year) and devastating floods...
...campaign to avoid speaking before big crowds. Stocky, abrasive Muldoon is a cost accountant with a pugnacious political style that proved to be a powerful attraction on the campaign trail. Muldoon criticized Rowling as "too timid and too tentative" to be Prime Minister. Although New Zealand is not exactly beset by a crime wave, Muldoon promised law-and-order government. He also attacked Labor's economic record-inflation has risen from 5.5% in 1972 to 14.8% this year-and accused the government of mortgaging New Zealand's future by borrowing heavily overseas (more than $1 billion since...
...freshman year, Jeff was beset by conflicts. He wasn't sure he could shine at Harvard like he had in high school and that scared...
...such, it is a token of detente, which, with all its dangers, probably remains the world's best hope for avoiding nuclear war. The declaration also is a symbol of the fact that while strong enmity between Communist and Western systems remains, the cold war tensions that beset Europe for a generation have continued to abate. For all the doubts about the meeting's real significance, it nonetheless offers an impressive historical perspective: it takes place 30 years after American and Soviet troops met at the Elbe, 27 years after the Berlin airlift, 26 years after the birth...