Word: badgering
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...Badger's Den." the Japanese call it-the grim, grey, high-walled Russian embassy, which squats on a hill in Tokyo's downtown section. From alleys that lead toward it, from the windows that overlook it, Japanese police and U.S. intelligence agents keep watch on the furtive comings & goings of its 30-odd Russian inhabitants. The missions of the Russians are not diplomatic; the Japanese have not recognized the embassy since 1951, when the Soviet Union refused to ratify the Japanese peace treaty...
Last week, four days after Georgie was scheduled to leave, the Russians at the Badger's Den distressedly called the police and asked them please to find George. He was "mentally weak," perhaps had suffered "a nervous breakdown," they said. All they knew was that the day before his planned departure, George had said he was going to do some last-minute shopping, and before their eyes, swung aboard a U.S. Security Forces...
...five oldsters-four men and a woman-were not the sort to badger officials, but something had made them desperate. Last week they trooped into the office of Colorado's Governor Dan Thornton to present a special petition. "Governor," said one of the men, "I'll bet you a cowboy hat and a new pipe that you can't match this story any place...
...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...