Word: bedevilling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...does not matter what you can do." There is no political, economic or legal excuse for such discrimination. But even if it were ended, finding the best level at which to strike the trade-off between unemployment and inflation would be a problem that would continue to bedevil economists of every persuasion...
Civil wars and chronic conflicts bedevil the world from Burundi to Northern Ireland to the Middle East and Viet Nam. But one civil war that has recently been settled was the 17-year struggle in Sudan between the 4,000,000 blacks of the south and the 11 million northerners, mostly Arabs. Three months ago, the leaders of the two sides-Major General Jaafar Numeiry, President of the Sudan, and Major General Joseph Lagu, commander of the southern guerrillas-met in Addis Ababa, capital of neighboring Ethiopia, and signed a compromise settlement negotiated with the help of U.N. refugee organizations...
...Boston studios where Zoom is produced for public television, grownups coach, suggest, choreograph and keep a professional rein on things, thus avoiding the anarchy and flatness that sometimes bedevil NBC's hourlong, live Take a Giant Step. But the kids have the last say. Producer Christopher Sarson originally wanted a problem-solving segment patterned after the "Dear Abby" column, but the Zoom cast vetoed the idea: they felt they lacked the experience to solve problems for their peers. At the end of last week's show, they urged young viewers ("Zoomers") to write in for song lyrics...
...CLIMAX of the book unfolds at Harvard, where King came as a Nieman Fellow last year. Here he hoped to find a non-racist civilization as well as an intellectual community with an edge on solutions to the problems that bedevil the masses outside. Needless to say, King found nothing of the sort. In a few pages, he sets down enough evidence to shock all but the most cynical (or most aware) of the ten thousand white men of Harvard. King reveals scenes in the Faculty Club, in a Dean's house, and in the lecture hall that rival...
...fast plays, the fakes, the great moments can be savored thanks to slow motion replay. Here there are no irrational mysteries to bedevil the mind, which can effectively master the patterns unwinding before it. The spectator, like the Eye of God, can scrutinize the same play from three or four different angles. (This is more significant for football, where the action is rich and diverse, than for linear and static sports like baseball, golf, or tennis...