Word: accosts
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...paddy wagons lined the streets and officers strolled through the crowd both before and after the games. In the stadium, there were at least two police officers in every section. In addition, undercover police officers patrolled the scene outside of the stadium, and I personally saw one accost an out-of-control...
Rehberg, meanwhile, says Phoebe tried to intimidate him by sending a couple of private eyes to accost him in a parking lot last month. According to a complaint Rehberg filed with the FBI, the men jumped out of a Jeep, claimed they were former FBI agents, blocked his vehicle and demanded he come with them to sign documents granting him "immunity" from lawsuits in exchange for cooperation. "Think about your wife Wanda and family," Rehberg says he was told, and "keep quiet about all this." A father of 8-year-old twin girls, Rehberg, 44, a former hospital...
Some of the wannabe wonks in attendance accost me after the talk, launching into discussions about the Iraq crisis and Bush-Cheney corruption scandals. I use the word “discussion” lightly—the conversations consist mostly of me listening to their 10-minute monologues. Occasionally I nod my head or release a murmur of approval from my parched throat; at least political discourse is alive and well. I refrain from purchasing the book, however...
...need to learn how to party safely without disrupting anyone else, and this includes neighbors’ ability to study or sleep,” Adams House Master Sean Palfrey said. “I know that [nearby students] are hesitant to accost their neighbors, and say, ‘you guys are making too much noise, please tone it down...
...tense up because he’s louder and more insistent than I’ve had the energy to be. Will he take my spot? When I see him accost every airline employee, I decide to use him to ask the questions rather than fight him. This plan is successful, and when I finally find an El-Al employee who seems to be in charge, she tells me I have first priority to get on the flight should anyone not show up. So here I am, waiting...