Word: harassing
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Niels Bohr deeply resented any restrictions that hindered the search for scientific truth. When the Nazis began to harass the great German universities, he wrote to physicists who he thought might be in danger of persecution and invited them to Copenhagen. Many came, and whenever any of them arrived, Bohr always made certain that he or one of his colleagues was at the railroad station to welcome them to his pleasant refuge...
...students armed with firecrackers and cherry bombs continued to harass Meredith and the U.S. marshals who guard him. the teachers got bolder. Incensed at the constant uproar, sick at heart of students yelling "nigger bastard," faculty wives started a telephone chain, got 68 husbands to patrol the campus at night to cool hotheads. The chemistry department threatened to quit in a body. Teachers were tempted to give rugged daily tests to pacify rebels, and to flunk prime offenders, but both ideas were rejected on the ground that moral, not academic, pressure is the right approach. Now the faculty committee...
...dragnet, government forces leapfrogged around the peninsula, moving past burning villages in the chase, destroying known Viet Cong supply dumps and training centers. By concentrating on such specific targets and keeping up a triphammer succession of attacks, the government hoped to force the Communist forces onto the defensive. To harass the Reds still further, several companies of Rangers, dressed in black peasant garb, infiltrated the Red areas and kept jabbing them off balance...
...guard is changed. Adult villagers hide caches of food and munitions at prearranged spots near the fort so that the regulars can travel light. On the day set for the attack, the Viet Cong regional troops take positions on roads leading to the fort in order to harass and slow up government columns moving to the rescue...
...jungle surrounding the Pathet Lao stronghold on the Plaine des Jarres, Meo guerrillas also successfully harass the enemy. Even the regular army occasionally shows up well: last month 100 outnumbered government troops fought their way to a village under attack by the Pathet Lao, turned defeat into a victory...