Word: harassed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...half of the court is called the service side; the other the hazard side, for reasons seen to become obvious. The "dedans," the "grille," and the "winning gallery" are three exotic names for holes which harass the unfortunate on the hazard side. If the server hits the 2 1/4-inch cloth spheroid with which the game is played into any of those holes, he wins the point...
...Harlow Curtice about competition in the auto industry, suggested that G.M. could cut prices if it wanted to. His line of questioning soon drew a rebuke from Indiana's Republican Senator Homer Capehart, who flatly accused Fulbright of having no intention "to investigate the stock market, but to harass . . . business." When Fulbright's committee brought out its report two months later, he conceded that he had found no major abuses on the stock exchanges...
...small group of Fair Dealers. But in legislation-where reason and fairness took hold-they were not hurt. In a year of unprecedented prosperity, when business was hiring more workers, paying more wages and producing more goods than ever before, the U.S. was in no mood to harass its businessmen...
...common knowledge," said the Forty and Eight executive committee, "that the national organization of the American Legion is, and for more than the past seven years has been, under the domination and control of a small group of men . . . With intent only to annoy, harass and humiliate us, they denied our humble petition for leave to have our usual separate parade . . . We can bear no more. Therefore, with heavy hearts and unconcealed sorrow, appealing to the Supreme Judge of all men for the rectitude of our intentions, we renounce our association with the American Legion...
...Monday, young Washingtonians have been aroused at cockcrow and subjected to the city's egg rolls. On that day thousands of citizens flock to the Lion House hill at the Zoo to hurl Easter eggs around, lounge in the sun, litter the grass, trample on other citizens, and harass the police and the National Parks maintenance men. Hundreds more attend egg rollings at churches, schools and private homes. But the biggest numbers always converge on the White House. Last week, as usual, the grounds of the Executive Mansion looked like a mob scene on a field...