Word: harassed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only truces were political expediencies. In the House, Republicans Fish, Tinkham and Mundt gathered enough strength from their own party and from anti-Roosevelt Democrats to harass and threaten every Presidential move. In the Senate, Wheeler, Bennett Clark, Taft and Nye did the same, with similar hybrid cohorts...
...what a Sam Browne belt will do for a tubby physique, are flocking into civilian defense organizations so they can wear uniforms themselves. But oh, how wrong they are! The fair sex just don't seem to have been built for khaki. Those severe, blue-grey creations which would harass Mainbocher or Schiaparclli to an early grave have bulges in the wrong places and straight lines just where they most oughtn't to be. Even the new be-bustled bathing suit doesn't render a beautiful lady as unattractive as one of those proto-masculine outfits which leaves her about...
...must at all costs maintain the two principal operations in Malaya and the Philippines. This means a hazardous and endless duty of convoying, supplying, transporting troops, a duty subject to raiding by U.S., British and Dutch submarines, planes and surface craft. The Japanese Fleet must also continue to harass the U.S. lines of communication. It must, above all, be wary of Allied offensive action, which might take many forms...
...inside the city workers labored day and night toward the completion of two more such trains. One Russian lunge drove back the German right wing, restoring the line to its position in early September. The Reds sneaked across Lake Ladoga and the Gulf of Finland in small boats to harass the German flanks. The Germans seemed to be digging in almost defensively-with half-buried tanks as pillboxes...
...House, who has busied himself lately trying to convince the House that the time is ripe for a negotiated peace between Britain and Germany. Rankin had just told a deathly-still House: "Mr. Speaker, Wall Street and a little group of our international Jewish brethren are still attempting to harass the President . . . and the Congress of the United States into plunging us into the European war, unprepared. . . . These international bankers are so afraid that this peace movement . . . might take root . . . before they can get us into it [the war] that on yesterday they held a rally in Wall Street...