Word: besetting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sultan commissioned an illustrated version of the national epic Shah-Nameh (Book of Kings), and a vast workshop of artists labored on it for decades. Much of that book has now been reproduced in facsimile with explanatory text. The epic tells of ancient kings of Persia, real and mythical, beset by devils and dynastic rivalries. The pictures are Persian miniatures, with details so fine that they had to be painted with brushes made from kitten fur and the tails of squirrels. A delight, an education and one of the year's best buys...
...KILBRIDGE HIMSELF is partly responsible for creating the image that the GSD is beset with problems. Before leaving the GSD, Hartman wrote a memorandum in late 1969 criticizing the School for its non-support. Kilbridge responded with the "Save the UFS" leaflet, in which he implied that Hartman had plotted to end the UFS. "I have learned of a whispering campaign against the UFS. Since I believe the UFS in one of the finest programs in this school. I will not allow it to be destroyed by any person or group for self-indulgent reasons," the flyer said...
FRENCH President Georges Pompidou struck almost the same theme when he declared that "Europe is a reality, with its own personality." Yet, in their two days of meetings last week, the political leaders of Europe demonstrated that the Common Market is still beset by the divisions that have handicapped it since its founding in 1958. France is determined to maintain a loose confederation of nation states while the other members are, in varying degrees, committed to the creation of a Europe that is united politically as well as economically...
...compiled by three analytically trained assistants); and he carefully studied Mein Kampf. His conclusion: Hitler was "probably a neurotic psychopath bordering on schizophrenia," or, in simpler terms, the Fuhrer was not insane but was emotionally sick and lacked normal inhibitions against antisocial behavior. A desperately unhappy man, he was beset by fears, doubts, loneliness and guilt, and spent his whole life in an unsuccessful attempt to compensate for feelings of helplessness and inferiority...
Strolling through the Yard between classes, the freshman is beset by bullhorns blaring names of "war criminals" and other "enemies of the people." Upon returning to his room, he finds an equally mindless communique from an Administration figure about some controversy that began back in 1968 and is not even fully understood by its protagonists...