Word: harassed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nevertheless, textilemen expected shortages to harass consumers for some time. They guessed that the sellers' market in men's suits may not end for a year, although suit production is now above prewar. As for women's dresses, there should be a large supply in the stores by next fall...
...wild cherry trees and the poplars unfolded their gummy and fragrant leaves, the bursting buds of the lindens expanded, the jackdaws, the sparrows and the pigeons were busy and joyous over their nests. . . . Plants, birds, insects and children rejoiced. But man, mature man, ceased not to cheat and to harass himself and his fellowmen.-Leo Tolstoy in "Resurrection...
...Japs were bound not only for Kweilin, capital of Kwangsi Province, but also for Chenankwan on the French Indo-China border. If they ever got there, East China, with its bases from which Chennault's hard-driven aviators harass the enemy from Shanghai to Formosa to Hainan, would be lost. From such a catastrophe, the Pacific commands of General MacArthur and Admiral Nimitz would suffer almost as much as the Chinese...
...fighters-were set down south of Myitkyina by U.S. gliders and planes in one of the most hair-raising airborne operations of the war (TIME, April 10). First under Major General Orde Charles Wingate, then, after his death, under Major General Walter D. A. Lentaigne, their job was to harass Japanese communications...
...stirred up" by radical Yankee agitators. Summing up this popular philosophy last week, Mississippi's John Elliott Rankin lashed out: "The Negroes . . . are having their hope of peace and harmony with their white neighbors destroyed by ... parlor pinks in the Department of Justice [who] are already starting to harass the Southern states as a result of the blunder of the Supreme Court...