Word: badgering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There the repentant Toad determines to lead a new life, exemplified by his loyal but stuffy middle class friends, Badger, Mole, and Rat. When he escapes from the Tower, however, he reverts to his behavior as headstrong scion of the aristocracy...
...control of the tin union during the wartime regime of Dictator-President Gualberto Villaroel. After Villaroel was hanged to a lamppost in 1946 and his Movement of Nationalist Revolution (M.N.R.) disrupted, Lechin was among the first to cheer the new democratic government. But he missed no chance to badger it with ever-mounting wage demands...
...Democrats were sure that there was a conspiracy among the Republicans to badger the Democratic leadership at every turn. When Texas' Tom Connally mildly urged his colleagues to be as brief as possible, Republicans burst into a solid hour of angry recriminations...
...there are signs of a letdown. In the Badger Tavern, an off-campus hangout, ex-G.I. Bob Miller remarked one night last week: "Some blame it on the talk about another war, some say we're just tired. Whatever it is, there seems to be more cutting of classes this year, more playing around, and less work." President Harold W. Stoke of Louisiana State University, who once taught at Wisconsin, returned there recently and observed: "If you take a freshman at college and give him a convertible and a textbook, you have an uneven contest...
Only in the Wisconsin game was the pass defense system successful with Furse breaking up most of the Badger tosses. To complicate matters still further, Brooks Naffziger, a defensive standout, is lost to the team for the rest of the year...