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Word: annoy (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...People belong to one of our best generations. They sometimes puzzle me, occasionally annoy me, always interest, intrigue, delight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 13, 1967 | 1/13/1967 | See Source »

Navy will not field any notable individual players, but the Midshipmen are known as spirited fighters in good condition. Warm courts and screaming galleries usually annoy teams visiting Annapolis. Five years ago the Crimson played its last away contest with Navy under similar conditions, and lost...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Squash Team Goes South For Navy, Penn Matches | 1/13/1967 | See Source »

While it is sad enough that there are students in the college who resent the expression of dramatic dissent, it is even sadder that these same students were given positions of power by the Administration -- positions that they were able to use to annoy, harass...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rindge Rent Plan Adopted In committee | 11/16/1966 | See Source »

...used for June Clark's sneezing [June 17] might be considered a sort of punitive reeducation. It recalls the advice of the Duchess in Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland: "Speak roughly to your little boy,/And beat him when he sneezes:/He only does it to annoy,/ Because he knows it teases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 1, 1966 | 7/1/1966 | See Source »

...with Ceausescu in secret talks. Beyond the expectable communiqué concerning "subjects of mutual interest," outsiders could only guess at the real substance of the conversations. After all, there were plenty of signs that Rumania was taking an active role in European Communist affairs-a role that could only annoy Moscow. Premier Ion Gheorghe Maurer was in Geneva ostensibly for a "cure"-but possibly in some connection with the talks that Averell Harriman was conducting with the International Red Cross about U.S. prisoners in North Viet Nam. Rumania's First Vice President Emil Bodnaras was huddling with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rumania: A Stinging Attack | 5/20/1966 | See Source »

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