Word: harassed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Space Navies. If one nation has established a manned, armed satellite as a pillbox revolving around the earth, rival nations will be forced to find means of destroying it. They may try manned vehicles that could maneuver handily like PT boats of space. These vehicles could harass enemy satellites, shooting them down with space torpedoes or filling their orbits with steel shot revolving in the opposite direction at 20,000 m.p.h. Next step might be space destroyers to deal with the space PT boats...
...buses rolled passengerless along streets clogged with trudging Negroes, sympathetic white motorists of Johannesburg began more and more to stop and offer lifts. Strydom's police set up roadblocks to harass the drivers, checking and rechecking licenses and registrations, whipping out tape measures to see if the law providing a 15-in. space for each passenger was being observed, citing every letter of the law to delay the car-lift. In the cities themselves, police searched Negro hotels and the servant quarters of white homes to smoke out workers staying overnight without police passes. Railroads refused...
When ace Dartmouth passer Bill Beagle graduated last June many Crimson fans breathed sighs of relief. With Beagle and Captain Leo McKenna gone, and with a freshman quarterback who had completed only three passes during the entire season, the Big Green seemed one team that definitely wouldn't harass the weak Crimson pass defense...
Police said the couple was sitting on a Common bench when the gang appeared and started to harass them. A fight started and the couple fled with the teen agers at their heels...
...York Times. Last week the Senate investigators called up 18 witnesses for open hearings-and nine of them were on the Times, and two had just left it. The Times promptly accused the subcommittee's leaders of trying not so much to hunt Communists as to harass the Times for editorial views hostile to their...