Word: harassing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...hearings themselves, the Lubell's only comment is that the only reason for their being called before the public session was to harass them and to gain publicity for Committee members...
...kind of debate stirring in Washington, London and elsewhere last week. The throes of change from Stalin to pudgy Premier Malenkov would open fresh opportunities, exploitable fissures for the West. Where they would come, what they would be, how they could be breached-these were questions that would beguile, harass and test both worlds, the captive and the free, for a long time to come...
...scheme successfully adopted by the British in Malaya-resettlement of peasants in protected villages. Fruitlessly he tried to talk the French military command into a three-part plan to 1) regroup scattered villages into strong farmers' communities; 2) transform communal militias into truly popular forces; 3) harass the Communists whenever they attempt to infiltrate one of the new resettlement villages. Busy fighting, with no money to spare, the French shook their heads. Said a French civil servant: "The French would never dare to undertake such a tricky enterprise...