Word: harassed
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...after years Nelson's words took on a special meaning, came to stand as the essence of a naval theory: to force the enemy to action anywhere and any time, not to harass or divert him, but to drive him into a battle of final decision. In World War II, British naval commanders have acted as though they had Nelson's words tattooed on their hearts...
Trouble loomed from the outset. Soon after Italy capitulated, a handful of British airborne troops took a handful of Dodecanese and Aegean islands off Turkey's west coast. Their aim: air bases, harbors from which to harass from the rear the Nazis' outer chain of Balkan defenses-the islands of Rhodes, Scarpanto and Crete...
...discipline of Wellington's army was internal; if the officers brought their men to the field well appointed and with 60 good rounds of ammunition each, he did not harass them with unnecessary drill. At each crisis in his career, just as in each crisis in each of his battles he appeared on the scene where he was needed, the officers and men came forward with testimonials too impressive to permit his enemies to order him away...
cackled the three fates, their work done, thinking fiendishly of the thousands CPA Jr. would harass...
Late in September 1941 the Germans moved in, made an air base at Longyear City, from which they could harass Allied shipping to Murmansk. Six months later a Norwegian force returned. Eighty-two of them in an icebreaker and a fishing vessel crawled up Green Fjord, where they were sighted and attacked by German Condors. One ship was sunk, the other set afire. Survivors climbed out of the subfreezing water on to the ice and got ashore at Barentsburg, carrying their wounded, 15 skis, a few rifles and a single, broken lamp...