Word: harassing
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...Japs were bound not only for Kweilin, capital of Kwangsi Province, but also for Chenankwan on the French Indo-China border. If they ever got there, East China, with its bases from which Chennault's hard-driven aviators harass the enemy from Shanghai to Formosa to Hainan, would be lost. From such a catastrophe, the Pacific commands of General MacArthur and Admiral Nimitz would suffer almost as much as the Chinese...
...fighters-were set down south of Myitkyina by U.S. gliders and planes in one of the most hair-raising airborne operations of the war (TIME, April 10). First under Major General Orde Charles Wingate, then, after his death, under Major General Walter D. A. Lentaigne, their job was to harass Japanese communications...
...stirred up" by radical Yankee agitators. Summing up this popular philosophy last week, Mississippi's John Elliott Rankin lashed out: "The Negroes . . . are having their hope of peace and harmony with their white neighbors destroyed by ... parlor pinks in the Department of Justice [who] are already starting to harass the Southern states as a result of the blunder of the Supreme Court...
Even if Kawabe only succeeds in seizing the airstrips in the Imphal Valley, he will have done serious damage and be able to harass Stilwell's supply route...
...grumpy retaliation, Argentine customs authorities recently began to harass Uruguayans leaving Argentina. They took candy from children on the grounds that it contained material "necessary to Argentine economy," confiscated polo sticks of departing sportsmen. They even tried to take the official seal from a Paraguayan Minister. Last week they pulled the meanest trick yet: they seized the trophy which a Uruguayan football team had won in Argentina...