Word: harassed
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...delicate search for someone to govern. Narrow as they were, the figures still favor the democratic center. Strong enough to gain from dissension, patient enough to wait for chaos, the Communists are still neither able nor willing to take power legally. The far right is imposing enough to harass, but too weak to be a threat. Only the Christian Democrats have the chance to patch together a parliamentary majority...
...beyond the shadow of a doubt to MeCarthy, and The Age of Suspicion reaches its climaxes with Wechsler's hearing before McCarthy's committee last spring. As the New York Times stated then, the Senator "Was using his undoubted right of investigation as a cover for an attempt to harass and intimidate Mr. Wechsler as an editor who has bitterly and uncompremisingly opposed Mr. McCarthy." It was an inquisition in which McCarthy turned the world upside down, for Wechsler ended up "in the preposterous position of denying under oath that I had myself inspired the long series of communist attacks...
...looks. Ibn Saud sent Emir Turki Ibn Utaishan to occupy Buraimi, supposedly in answer to an appeal for protection by the villagers. Britain countered by stationing three young officers and a batch of Trucial Oman levies in a string of Beau Geste mud forts sprinkled around the oasis, to harass and starve the Emir into retreat (TIME, April 27). Occasionally the British rifles would scare off a caravan, occasionally one would get through to bring food to the Saudi Arabians...
...paddy mud, were demoralized after seven years of battle with Red Viet Minh forces that seemed to attack from everywhere, only to fade into nowhere when counterattacked. The governments of Indo-China's three Associated States, Laos, Cambodia and Viet Nam, were taking advantage of the mess to harass France for more and faster independence than France could sensibly give. The truce was on the way in Korea, freeing Communism to turn its attention and resources on the war that Korea had overshadowed. Their fortunes and their spirits at a dismally low ebb, the leaders of France were seriously...
...noisy, crowded meeting hall at Douglas, on the Isle of Man, where 1,000 delegates representing 8,000,000 British union workers gathered for the annual conference of the Trades Union Congress. The Bevanites came with thoraxes well oiled and briefcases crammed with speeches and resolutions concocted to harass, convert, and, if possible, uproot the T.U.C.'s Percheron-stolid leadership. Amplified by Communist and fellow-traveler support which they disdain but inevitably attract, Bevanite voices rang out with demands for censure against T.U.C. members who accept posts in the Conservative Churchill government, for condemnation of U.S. cold war policy...