Word: badgering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...BADGER Beverly Hills, Calif...
Determined to make the Ministry mend its muddling ways, London newsmen badger it constantly, refer to the Press v. Ministry feud as the Battle of Bloomsbury. (The Ministry operates out of Bloomsbury from an elephantine white building borrowed from London University.) Typical of the quarrel are snide cartoons of Minister of Information Alfred Duff Cooper...
Individually most of my countrymen are too honest and too inept to filch anything smaller than the moomoo's egg. Nationally Bulgaria has never shone in the badger game of territorial expansion...
...full of corn as a silo. Dear Mom recounts the adventures of an addlepated rookie named Homer Stubbs, and his highborn pal Red Foster, son of a factory owner, who helps him badger a tough top-sergeant called Monihan. Devised by stocky, moon-faced Robert Newton Brown, CBS program director, and writer W. Ray Wilson, Dear Mom is supervised by Major Frank Collins, a morale officer on the executive staff of the 6th Corps Area. The program whips into a description of the joys of camp life, introduces Homer scratching away at a letter to his mother. Its first episode...
Meantime aggressive Mr. Dewey moved toward Wisconsin, routing defeatism as he went. Handsome, happy, healthy as a horse, Tom Dewey celebrated his 38th birthday last week, laid out a speechmaking path that would whirl him through the Badger State in a two-day, 20-stop gale just before Primary...