Word: harassing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...expected to win. They are expected only to stand and hold, and perhaps to be killed or maimed in the process. They are expected to leave their line on occasion and walk through the night silence toward the enemy line, and on rare occasion even to attack and harass the enemy line-but almost never to take the enemy line...
...charged that she 1) made him prepare breakfast and dress the baby, 2) beat him until his legs were "raw meat," 3) demanded that he rinse the clothes four times when he did the Friday-night washing, although "this was not a sanitary idea of hers, but merely to harass...
...fact that the Reds have-so far-not dared to throw their air potential against the U.N. lines. This Communist timidity has brought about a situation unprecedented since the airplane became a weapon: the side with fewer planes has used them to kill thousands of enemy soldiers and to harass enemy supply and transport, without suffering retaliation in kind. Whatever the Communists may do in the future, up to now they have been just as afraid of "widening the war" as the U.N. Perhaps, on the record, a little more...
...there is still a great difference between the choices. In their day-to-day policies, Socialists are fighting Moscow, but they also harass, obstruct and denounce capitalism. Socialism and capitalism have formed an alliance against the Communists; yet they have not, and cannot fuse their long-range aims...
Instead of closing ranks against the common foe-Russia-too many Americans are gleefully riding behind a dismissed insubordinate Army officer and will cheer him to any reckless extreme-just so it will embarrass and harass our present Democratic President...