Word: badgering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...student political organizations at Wisconsin tried to force another one off campus at the University of Wisconsin last December. Aiming their guns at the Badger chapter of the Labor Youth League, the Young Republicans and the Badger Veterans Association asked the University and the state legislature to ban "all subversive groups" from using university facilities. The Labor Youth League is on the Attorney General's list of subversive organizations...
...student political organizations at Wisconsin tried to force another one off campus at the University of Wisconsin last December. Aiming their guns at the Badger chapter of the Labor Youth League, the Young Republicans and the Badger Veterans Association asked the University and the state legislature to ban "all subversive groups" from using university facilities. The Labor Youth League is on the Attorney General's list of subversive organizations...
...Visitors were always surprised he was so short, guessed his height at 5 ft. 4 in., his weight from 150 Ibs. to 190 Ibs. His complexion was swarthy, sometimes yellowish, and his face was lightly pitted from a childhood smallpox. His hair was grey and stiff as a badger's, his mustache white. His expression was usually sardonic, his rare smile saturnine. When he laughed loudly he exposed a mouth full of teeth-jagged, yellow teeth-and the sound of his laughter was a controlled, relaxed, hissing chuckle...
Furry appeared relaxed and confident, and the reporters clustered around him were extremely polite and extremely anxious. They pressed forward with their questions, continually returning to badger him about Communist membership. They asked the same questions in a dozen different ways, but every time they did Furry would smile and say "You sound like the Committee" or "I guess Mr. Velde could use you" and everyone would laugh. You could tell, though, that the reporters didn't think it was very funny...
...Times's correspondents throughout the world sent the story echoing back with "reaction" stories from "informed sources." (General reaction: extreme skepticism.) Reporters tried in vain to badger a comment out of General Eisenhower as he was about to go into Columbia University's St. Paul's Chapel on Christmas morning. In Washington next day, Harry Truman was besieged all day by queries, finally said that he would be "pleased indeed if any agreement can be reached with Stalin which would achieve world peace." Ike's Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles, after conferring by telephone with...