Word: harassed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lone dissent, Justice Harlan discounted the "trivial" influence of "this apparently Elizabethan-tongued bailiff." Far worse, warned Harlan, the Parker reversal may now "encourage convicted felons to intimidate, beset and harass' a discharged jury in an effort to establish possible grounds for a new trial." The decision, said Harlan, "may be thought by some to commit" federal courts holding habeas corpus hearings to interrogate every jury "upon the mere allegation that a prejudicial remark has reached the ears of one of its members." But any large-scale jail delivery is hardly likely. Lower courts are still free to decide...
While military pressure on the Viet Cong grows, so does the Communist campaign of terror against the Vietnamese people. The Viet Cong conscript by force, levy taxes on the populace and generally harass whichever villages they cannot control. They have killed no fewer than 15,000 local village chiefs since 1957, and regularly heave grenades into sidewalk cafes, detonate plastic bombs in hotels and use other tech niques that accounted for the loss of more than 2,000 lives last year. The terror is meant to slam home the message that nobody is safe anywhere, and that an enemy...
While it is sad enough that there are students in the college who resent the expression of dramatic dissent, it is even sadder that these same students were given positions of power by the Administration -- positions that they were able to use to annoy, harass...
There is also, Dunn continued, "the unexpected possibility that things will get out of hand, and that local people will harass the picketers...
Courage is as common as caution. Working behind the scenes during World War II, Hambros Chairman Jack Hambro helped harass the German economy through black market operations in Nazi-occupied countries. Sometimes the rewards of courage are handsome. When California's Jergins Corp. was up for sale in 1950, nobody wanted to buy it-nobody but Lehman Brothers, which formed a group that picked up the company for $29 million, renamed it Monterey Oil. Within two years, the Lehman group paid off the full amount by selling some of the company's assets, yet still kept most...