Word: badgering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...busy badger: WRCA's Gabriel Pressman, 33, who a fortnight ago plunked his camera equipment and crew down before a public hearing at City Hall in defiance of the city council's ban on TV. Ordered out, Reporter Pressman replied: "You'll have to eject us." Then he tried to force the council's hand by asking it to vote on whether he could remain. Pressman's request was denied; he and his crew were bounced by the sergeant at arms. But the furor brought top New York broadcasting brass together for a showdown with...
...political campaign rolled to its climax, the President of the U.S. was a calm and confident candidate. Wherever his plane or train had carried him across the land, Ike, had found full crowds, enthusiastic faces. Wherever Democrats had raised an issue to badger him, he met it quietly, succeeded (so his supporters thought) in turning it to his own advantage. Less and less White House aides discussed the presidential race, more and more they made optimistic estimates about the number of G.O.P. Congressmen who would ride in on Ike's coattails. Last week, to spread those coattails even wider...
Cloak & Dagger. Clearly the boycott is hurting Kohler in some areas. As soon as the union hears from its agents inside the plant that Kohler has landed a large order, a U.A.W. stump man is sent to badger the prospective buyer. Last December Los Angeles' State Plumbing & Heating Co. ordered $100,000 worth of Kohler plumbing for an addition to the Los Angeles County General Hospital. Immediately, State's President E. J. Weinberger was solicited by the local plumbers' union to pressure Kohler to settle its differences. Fearful that his plumbers would slow down, Weinberger canceled...
...general shape of the TU-IO4 proves that it is a partial redesign of the twin-engined jet bomber that the West has dubbed the Badger. Like the Badger, its two engines are very large (estimated thrust: 20,000 Ibs. each). This is not necessarily a plus; Western designers, with that kind of horsepower available, like to split their power among four, six or eight engines to reduce frontal area per engine and spread thin potential troubles from engine failure...
Savage Indignation. In an age of savage politics, he was the most savage, in such withering satires as A Tale of a Tub and A Modest Proposal. When he fought, says Biographer Murry, "he bit like a badger till his teeth met." Men feared him, and three women loved him. Pride, it seems, forbade him to give them a man's love in return. With a lunatic idealism, he could not forgive them for having the natural functions common to all humans...