Word: harassed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...into it. This week the nation, with a 40-day coal supply on hand, had its miners' strike after all. How long would it last? There was no telling. Safety inspection of all the mines might take two months. There were a thousand quibbles with which John could harass the Government-and keep...
Georgia was getting more publicity than a two-headed calf-and seemed to suffer from the same ailments which harass such a rare beast. Each of Georgia's heads wanted to go in a different direction. Each mooed incessantly. Each tried to butt the other out of the feedbox. Meanwhile, the animal proper did not seem able to eat, walk or cough up its cud, but simply stood disconsolately, enduring violent disturbances of the fourth stomach...
Stuff & Nonsense. David concluded that Mary had "an impulsive urge" to run the company, was trying to harass him into selling back his stock. Nonsense, cried Mary. In the first place, David's permanent ownership in the stock was contingent on his delivering all ten of the pictures he had contracted for; if he delivered a minimum of five, he could resell his stock to U.A. at an "equitable" price; if he delivered less than five, as was now the case, he had no rights in the stock at all. Despite David's claims to have bought...
Something was obviously wrong with the machine. New York's anti-Communist Liberal Party, veterans' groups, old-line, anti-Tammany Democrats, and independent voters began to harass Marc and talk up a new deal for East H:1 cm. To help them along, Candidate Bryan invaded the grimiest corners of Marcantonio's dead end with an oldfashioned, no-quarter campaign. Patronage or no patronage, Marcantonio would have to hustle...
Some observers thought the movement, despite its peculiarly widespread character, was spontaneous. Giuseppe Lorenzini, a partisan brigade leader, declared that it had been fomented and financed by the Communist Party. Chief point of interest: were the Communists trying to organize a Tito-like partisan movement to harass the Allied rear in case of a Yugoslav move against Trieste...