Word: annoy
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which infest locker rooms and swimming pools-there are at least a hundred bland salves and powders on the market. Favorites: boric acid and sulfur powders, salves of salicylic acid and benzoic acid mixed with vaseline; an ether-collodion mixture. These generally clear up the mild, itching cases which annoy millions of people...
After a proper tea, the cruisers again sortied out of the smoke. Ahead of one cruiser loomed the battleship, a bare 6,000 yards away. Its forward turrets were a solid, orange wall of flame. The British gunners knew that their shells could do no more than annoy the battleship. But they fired away. A British destroyer careened out of the smokescreen. The captain was certain that he holed the battleship with a torpedo. Another destroyer captain believed that he got a second hit. The battle ship did not sink, but it had had enough. At dusk, after five hours...
Children (like their elders) dislike brown book covers, unbroken pages of type, fine print. They often annoy their parents by ignoring old copies of The Jungle Book and Robinson Crusoe on the family bookshelves and bringing home from the library, as fresh discoveries, the same books-illustrated...
...although easy to make, derived from any very firm idea of what the undergraduate contributions should be like. Apprentice writers have a good deal to do, and very little experience yet available for expression. They need a free medium in which they have scope simply as the young to annoy by being clever and seriously as craftsmen to invent, explore, and anticipate. Those who have been unhappy about the undergraduate work in the Advocate presumably would not prefer disadvantageous competition with the commercial magazines or the kind of local-color article on Radcliffe that graced the Progressive a couple...
Their reasons are still unexplained. One rumor has it that one of the two, representing a House which used many years ago to have a reputation for good dances, was acared to annoy his clanny constituents for political reasons and that the other of the two was simply acting as the foll for the first. Another is that the two had the best dates for their own individual dances and refused to give them up because of the prospects of making money...