Word: accost
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This is the third in a series of attacks in the college vicinity this year, and the second within a week. Last Wednesday a man tried to accost a Radcliffe senior in the Cambridge Common while she was was returning to her dormitory, and on November 30 a Leverett House tutor was assaulted by four youths as he was walking back to his House along Plympton Street...
...tried to accost a Radcliffe senior at 9 p.m. Tuesday while she was walking home alone through the Cambridge Common. The girl escaped to the street, where a passing driver who had heard her screams gave her a ride to the dormitory...
...Russian women: "I have heard a lot of opinions about the life of Russian women and the way they are dressed," he told a French woman legislator. "But the worst work for a woman is prostitution ... In Paris you cannot walk down the street without having a woman accost you in order to subsist. Here in Russia, if a woman works like a man, she is at least not in a degrading situation but honestly earns her living...