Word: accosting
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...talks to it, sleeps with it, defends it against a threatening moth. Next day, miraculously, Akaky Akakievich and his overcoat create a sen sation at work. His former tormentors are now backslapping friends; he is even invited to a champagne party. But on the way home that night, ruffians accost Akakievich, steal his coat and with it his reason for existence. Again friendless, the cipher succumbs to madness and death; yet his ghost remains, seizing the coat collars of stolid St. Petersburgers to remind them that humanity is more than appearances...
...platoons of gumshoes peel off two by two to shadow individual visitors. Any attempt to talk to an Albanian results in his being shouldered out of earshot by an agent. One tourist on the beach at Durres succeeded in evading his shadow by swimming out beyond the breakers to accost an Albanian girl in a bikini. The girl, treading water, said: "I would like to have a long talk with you, but you must know that in this country it is impossible...
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...