Word: besetting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...beset last year by controversy over its term-bill method of funding, finds itself plagued this year by the opposite problem--not scrutiny, but apathy. Despite the extension of its deadline date for self-nomination of candidates, only about 20 of a possible 40 seats have contestants...
...American sales are beset by self-inflicted wounds
...more turbulent than Lady Macbeth. "I think perhaps you do not realise," Victoria complained to Lord Kitchener in the midst of World War I, "that we employ five carpenters and four painters and two blacksmiths and two footmen, and you are taking them all from us!" Victoria was so beset with lawsuits in her ill-tempered old age that she referred to her last residence, a Brighton villa, as the Writs Hotel...
...could be worse for Robert Q. Crane as he seeks renomination for yet another term as Treasurer. Last year, beset with political problems stemming from a criminal investigation into his conduct as treasurer, he looked like a loser...
Today the patchwork is in shreds. At every level its members are beset by serious, interrelated troubles, and some leaders fear the great game is in danger of being lost. Iran, for all its pretensions to being a modern arsenal, is torn by internal dissent. Insofar as the nation is able to look outward, it is the only regional CENTO power that regards the Soviet Union as its principal enemy...