Word: harass
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with the stock market. Snapped Fulbright: "You have no right continually to criticize my questions." But Capehart disagreed. "I am going to continue to do so because I am thoroughly-100%-convinced that the purpose of this investigation is not to investigate the stock market, but to harass the Eisenhower Administration and to harass business...
...swept into Paris, the Japanese, almost unopposed, took effective control of Indo-China. In what amounted in Asian eyes to a crowning loss of face, the Vichy-French agreed to cooperate with the Japanese. With flexibility and imagination, Ho patched together a "United Front" of Communists and Nationalists to harass both Frenchmen and Japanese. Ho called the new party the Viet Minh...
Seething over this latest example of the Christian Democrats' new determination to harass the enemy by every legal means, the Communists called a one-day citywide strike in Florence. And at a merry festa in Ravenna, Communist Boss Palmiro Togliatti was so mad he let his fangs show. Usually he talks a sweetly reasonable line; last week he gloated over the death of EDC, hailed the armistice in Indo-China and boiled with indignation at the banning of the festa in Florence...
...Second Night. At 12.39 a.m. next day, as the talk droned on, Knowland introduced a closure petition by which debate could be shut off on a two-thirds vote. It was Knowland's only available weapon, and with it he served notice of his determination to harass the filibusterers. They rejoined by demanding a quorum call at 12:50, another at 3:46. The quorum calls gave the orators a respite while the sergeant-at-arms routed Senators out of their beds at home or off their cots in the Capitol...
There was still no panic in the city, no discernible excitement around its shifting defense perimeter: the Viet Minh continued to harass as diligently as soldier ants; the French put on one or two counterattacks and claimed "appreciable" Communist losses. The artillery fire was all French-as it was at Dienbienphu before the Communists were ready. But the French and Vietnamese troops were now almost certain they would not be called upon to fight. "The gentlemen at Geneva have arranged it all," they would say. "Wait a few days. You will...