Word: harassing
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...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...
...Socialists succeeded in ending House of Commons sittings before midnight on every day except one last week. Then Parliament recessed over Easter, suspending the Tories' war of nerves against the government. Said the London Economist: "To harass the government on petty matters, to hold Parliament in a state of continuous tension, is all right, and will probably not provoke any real public disapproval, if it does not last very long; after a while . . . it will simply make the opposition look silly...
...more lines where the U.S. might stand to fight delaying actions, the first above Chonan and Chungju. the second above Taejon (see map). It seemed likely that the Communists would soon make their customary long halt for regrouping and resupply. If they did, the Eighth Army might stop to harass them, make them pay dearly for every mile gained. But if the Chinese continued their powerful assault, the U.N. forces could not attempt a serious holding action anywhere short of the old Pusan perimeter. In Korea and Tokyo last week, there was more & more talk that the U.N. forces would...