Word: harassed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Socialists succeeded in ending House of Commons sittings before midnight on every day except one last week. Then Parliament recessed over Easter, suspending the Tories' war of nerves against the government. Said the London Economist: "To harass the government on petty matters, to hold Parliament in a state of continuous tension, is all right, and will probably not provoke any real public disapproval, if it does not last very long; after a while . . . it will simply make the opposition look silly...
...more lines where the U.S. might stand to fight delaying actions, the first above Chonan and Chungju. the second above Taejon (see map). It seemed likely that the Communists would soon make their customary long halt for regrouping and resupply. If they did, the Eighth Army might stop to harass them, make them pay dearly for every mile gained. But if the Chinese continued their powerful assault, the U.N. forces could not attempt a serious holding action anywhere short of the old Pusan perimeter. In Korea and Tokyo last week, there was more & more talk that the U.N. forces would...
...corner of the mouth and by speaking softly out of the other. Chiang's offer of 33,000 troops for Korea was turned down on the ground that it might provoke the Chinese Communists to get into the fight. They got in anyway. By peremptorily forbidding Chiang to harass the Chinese mainland, the U.S. also gave the Chinese Communists flank protection from Formosa, in the same hope that they would stay out of Korea. They got in anyway...
...guerrillas, Mao years ago reminted some good advice originally coined by Sun Tzu, China's sth Century B.C. Clausewitz: "When the enemy advances, we retreat. When he escapes, we harass. When he retreats, we pursue. When he is tired, we attack." For comrades everywhere he wrote a military treatise, Strategic Problems (published in Yenan in 1941), that probably ranks as a classic on irregular warfare. Its precepts boldly give directions for destroying "an enemy 20 times our number...
...galleries were jammed with FEPC supporters (though very few Negroes) and the floor was crowded with Congressmen when the House convened at noon. Southern Democrats and twoscore Republican allies, who had kept the bill in the wings for weeks by stubborn delaying actions, gathered to the last man to harass, confuse and delay again. It was after 5 o'clock in the evening when the bill was brought before the House- a reading of Washington's Farewell Address, bickering oratory over parliamentary points and seven time-consuming roll calls had eaten up the afternoon. The Southerners received subtle...