Word: besetting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most reliable form of transportation to carry the Giants to the pennant. During a hot stretch drive, especially against relentless veterans, they have been known to flutter dangerously, not to say grow flustered, under stress. The Dodgers are such an enemy. Though they have thus far stumbled along, beset by injuries, they are still at or near the top, an established team of stars capable of leaving anybody in the dust...
...plainly, the spreading eagerness to avoid all risks and to find culprits for all injuries is going too far. The attitude rests on a refusal to to accept fate or personal folly as the real source of many of life's bumps. It is as if society is beset by the Utopian dream of a world that is free, if not of risks, then of all individual responsibility for those taken and lost...
...Chrysler Corp., like many another U.S. company, transformed itself into a multinational: it built or bought plants from Turkey to Australia so that it could compete worldwide with GM and Ford. But in recent years the foreign operations have brought Chrysler more pain than profit, so now the financially beset smallest member of the U.S. Big Three seems well on its way to turning itself into something much rarer: an ex-multinational...
...people." He was promptly suspended. To influential Austrian Catholic Publisher Otto Schulmeister, Paul's reign "seemed a pontificate of disintegration." Even commentators friendly to Paul argued that his administration stagnated in the 1970s, and his implementation of Vatican II and its bold initiatives were supplanted by temporizing. No wonder. Beset by rancorous critics to his left and right, Paul had to struggle mightily merely to hold his church together. He succeeded, but in the process was branded overcautious, hesitant...
Such cries were first heard five days before, when about 30 gathered in the nearby mountains to drink, sing and roast wienies around a bonfire that set off the most extended reunion ever staged by the class. It was also the most rained-on reunion. Drizzly weather beset the wienie roast and transformed it, and the parties of the next two nights, from al fresco to al canopy (a stately funeral tent was provided by Class Member Jack Kennedy, who had stuck around Kittanning and fulfilled a lifelong dream of becoming an undertaker). There was no sign that the rain...