Word: harassed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trying to build for the trial," Veach said in a telephone interview Friday. "The basic point about this case is that none of us are doing any political work at Harvard any more, so Harvard isn't too concerned with us. They just wanted to do a little to harass us, but it's not the most important thing to them...
...immediately assumed that the whites were either mercenaries or Portuguese bent on punishing Touré for harboring guerrillas who regularly harass the neighboring colony of Portuguese Guinea, also known as Guinea-Bissau for its capital. Mercenaries who were recruited in France in the past to fight in African wars re-emerged recently in London, and there was talk among them of "a big operation in West Africa...
...Aspen, Colo., is getting so spoiled by runaway commercialism that Author Hunter Thompson (Hell's Angels), who calls himself "a foul-mouthed outlaw journalist," figured that a shrill anti-progress campaign might just get him elected sheriff of Pitkin County. "Sod the streets, ban autos!" he cried. "Savagely harass land rapists!" By describing the job as "main pig," the shaved-skull exponent of "freak power" put off the conservative electorate, but the ecology issue is so big in Aspen that according to unofficial tabulations, Thompson lost by only 455 votes...
...first person to harass McNamara had been thrown out of Harvard, the C.F.I.A. would not have been bombed," he said, referring to Robert S. McNamara's visit to Harvard while Secretary of Defense...
...secret files are inherently dangerous and by their very existence tend to restrict/chill/deter those who would advocate, within protected areas, social and political change." The chilling effect consists of an awareness of the existence of files as well as the apprehension that such files will be used systematically to harass individuals or groups. "Citizens are chilled when, on the basis of awareness and apprehension, they become unwilling to engage in political expression and association or at least modify their behavior in order to meet accepted norms. . . . What is crucial, however, is not whether particular plaintiffs have abandoned or modified...