Word: harassing
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...referring to any problem arising out of censorship. What we have in mind is the necessity for candid reporting and honest criticism, on the one hand; and, on the other, the natural desire at this time not to offend or harass any loyal person or group or institution working in the common cause...
...Information, Please. In quarter-page newspaper ads, Pacific Tel. & Tel. begged subscribers to make sure the number they want is not in the telephone book before they harass information operators. P.T. & T. wants to reform some 242,000 lazy characters who strain war-taxed switchboards by asking for listed numbers...
...last week that General Draja Mihailovich's Army, now grown to a total of 200,000 men, had swooped down to attack Axis columns in Bosnia, then had retired again to craggy hideouts. In Croatia, deserters from Pavelich's Axis-puppet army were forming "Green Cadres" to harass the German. At Metkovich, Dalmatia, guerrillas derailed an Italian troop train, brought Italian casualties in Yugoslavia to a total of 5,000 men in five months...
...Britain. First the Germans in 1940 concentrated hundreds of planes on a single target in each raid, whereas the British last week fanned out and pecked at scattered targets with relatively small forces of planes on each. And second, the major R.A.F. effort was thrown into sweeps intended to harass the Germans along the invasion coast rather than to cut to the heart of the German war effort...
...Catholics seemingly back up the State Department stand. Monsignor Michael J. Ready, general secretary of the National Catholic Welfare Conference, the ringing voice of the U.S. hierarchy, declared last week that "the liberty and institutions" of the U.S. are today threatened by the same "rampant totalitarian military forces which harass the Church and all that the Church has built." This description obviously applied to Japan. Significantly, Monsignor Ready made his remarks at a service attended by the Apostolic Delegate to the U.S., Archbishop Amleto Giovanni Cicoganani, who will undoubtedly pass them on to the Vatican as a good indication...