Word: harassed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...suppose Hitler and Stalin may have had such lists," said Arthur Schlesinger Jr., "but no American President. Nixon saw himself as being above the law, and those under him acted accordingly." Democratic Congressman John Brademas of Indiana agreed. "The secret plan to use federal money and federal power to harass critics is further evidence of the contempt for law and common decency that has characterized the Nixon White House. The real 'enemies' Americans must fear are those who would subvert the rule of law and the institutions of freedom...
...said he had "no evidence" that the White House had attempted in the past several years to harass either himself or Harvard, although he said his first reaction was one of "concern" that such government moves might have been made. "Reflecting upon the past, I have no sense that the University has suffered," Bok said...
Kilson charged that the actions "amounted to a form of intellectual coercion inasmuch as the purpose was to harass, limit, or suppress publication by me of a version of my Bulletin articles in The New York Times Magazine...
...either pleaded guilty or were convicted on charges stemming from the Watergate affair. In return, Stans is suing O'Brien for $5,000,000 for libel and is asking $2.5 million for "abuse of process" (in effect claiming that the Democrats have filed their suits to harass...
Nobel-prizewinning Novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn may be too celebrated to imprison, but there are other ways for the Kremlin to harass rebellion. The Soviets have just thrown a smokescreen over Solzhenitsyn's novel, August, 1914, by publishing 100,000 copies of Barbara Tuchman's 1962 history of the same period, The Guns of August. (Mrs. Tuchman, who was neither consulted nor paid, said the Soviet tactic was "absurd" because "Solzhenitsyn and I come to much the same conclusions.") As another harassment the Russian Supreme Court undertook to review Solzhenitsyn's 1971 divorce decree from his first wife...