Word: annoy
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...about five minutes after this morning's History 169 lecture began, noises began to issue from the hall. Little interpretation or insight was needed to realize that these noises had a single purpose-to annoy Professor Schlesinger and to disrupt his lecture. One student was sent out to quiet them; he remained missing. Another tried to cope with the problem and was slightly more successful. He returned to report that the disturbance was caused by Lampoon "fools." "Fools" is the word used by the Lampoon to designate those people who wish to join its group; their analysis this morning proved...
...drive the restless from wholesome entertainment on a day of boredom in order to encourage desperate amusements; 2) to entice disbelievers into the moviehouses on weekdays by banning harmless moral productions on Sundays; 3) to promote a Christian revival by a mild martyrdom of Christian art . . .; or 4) to annoy moviegoers by being arbitrary and inconsistent...
...blunt, peasant face. Among Russians he has a crude way of addressing all those below him in rank with the unceremonious and familiar "thou." Said a Russian who knew him during his days in the Moscow Soviet: "He exudes self-confidence and aplomb. He knows very well how to annoy people with explanations of their party tasks." Was he talking with Malenkov now about his failed party tasks? Was he using the familiar "thou...
Your anti-McCarthy blatherings annoy me no end . . . A consideration of objective facts is sufficient to dispel your ill-conceived notion that the Senator is a fiend in human form...
...might annoy the U.S. (which he has-often done) or he might make a fool of himself (ditto). But baiting the U.S. is always a politically profitable exercise in Britain. As for making a fool of himself, Britons have never condemned any statesman for going anywhere with the hand of friendship extended-not even (at the time) Neville Chamberlain...