Word: annoyer
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...Washington each autumn great swarms of dark, destructive birds called starlings settle in the sycamore trees along Pennsylvania Avenue, annoy Congressmen and other citizens by chattering, committing nuisances. Only defense the Washington authorities have figured out is to annoy the starlings in turn. Last year they tried stinkpots. To these, Congressmen proved more sensitive than starlings. This year, with plenty of Federal relief funds available, Clifford Lanham, Superintendent of Trees & Parking, decided on a thoroughgoing mechanical job of starling-annoying...
Often enough to annoy a surgeon, the heart of a patient on the operating table stops. The alert surgeon gives the patient an injection of adrenalin, or tickles the heart with a needle, or stimulates it with an electrical pacemaker (TIME, Dec. 19, 1932). Or if he is working in the cavity of the chest or abdomen he may massage the heart back into action...
...schooling, started real life as a draper's apprentice. He hated the job, did it badly. He liked school teaching a little better, being a student at the South Kensington Normal School of Science even more. But as a science student he found so many things to interest and annoy him that at the end of three years he flunked, had to go back to teaching once more. A long apprenticeship at freelance writing taught him gradually how to write naturally. Slowly he became a journalist, an author, a Great...
...despairing. Author Samuel's theme, that man's spirit is continually struggling against the earthward pull of woman's nature, will tread uncomfortably hard on many a U. S. husband's tender toe. If wives are so ill-advised as to read it, it may annoy them, but only temporarily...
...Last Gentleman (Twentieth Century). For crotchety old Cabot Barr (George Arliss) life in his Barrville manor house is not all beer and skittles. His collection of 106 clocks, his fancy for stuffed peacocks on his lawn, annoy his son Judd (Donald Meek), a small, bald, middle-aged lowlife. The Barrs-son, daughter, two daughters-in-law, granddaughter and adopted grandson-are introduced in The Last Gentleman at a family memorial service for a deceased niece which Cabot Barr arranges because he is not, he says, "the sort of man who gives Christmas parties." They reassemble at Cabot Barrs summer camp...