Word: badger
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...Helens. Some 200 have been to the mountain, and hundreds of others have applied for permits through a committee of scientists, mainly from the Northwest, who are screening applicants on behalf of the U.S. Geological Survey. The screening process is anything but tranquil as scientists from some 60 universities badger authorities for permission to enter the normally forbidden "red zone" around the foot of the mountain. Some of those denied access have accused the Forest Service and the U.S.G.S. of conspiring to corner data from the mountain, using bureaucratic red tape to keep out competing researchers. One regulation: each investigating...
...Frangois Truffaut's fifth autobiographical Antoine Doinel movie, is that Antoine still refuses to grow up. Though the director's alter ego has come far since he first appeared 20 years ago in The 400 Blows, he remains a hopelessly restless, love-hungry kid. Antoine will badger, beg and lie to win a woman's affection, only to discover over and over that his hunger is not satiated by each new conquest. As a pal tells him this time, "All you care about is boy meets girl; from there, it's all downhill...
...Washington had any quick-fix cures to offer, they were not apparent. In the Senate, a group of Administration critics led by Ohio Democrat Howard Metzenbaum seemed content simply to badger and goad Energy Secretary James Schlesinger, variously recommending that he either quit or be fired as ineffectual. One of Schlesinger's biggest embarrassments: DOE'S strategic petroleum reserve, which is supposed to be available in times of severe shortage but is years behind schedule and contains less than a week's worth of oil. Pumps to get the crude back out of the huge underground Louisiana...
...writing is spare but flowing, with no set tense. Common nouns are idiomatic; a digs-with-mouth is a badger and a cloud-bird is an eagle. Mahto terms appear regularly, pta for buffalo and itancan for leader. And although the style at first seems ponderous and tedious, it soon becomes soothing. Like the book, it is steady and predictable. Also like the book, however, it is not for everyone...
...Soviets did not go beyond their warnings to China and lateral accusations against the U.S. In a televised speech, President Leonid Brezhnev repeated Soviet demands for the "immediate" recall of Chinese troops "to the last soldier," but stopped short of any direct threat of retaliation. The Soviets continued to badger Washington with charges of complicity, direct or indirect, in the Chinese invasion. Washington's "evenhanded" policy of castigating both the Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia and the Chinese invasion of Viet Nam was scornfully dismissed as a tilt toward China. It was that insistent Soviet view which torpedoed a United...