Word: harassing
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...begins discharging firearms, that he is Public Enemy No. A1. She is accused of aiding his escape, bullied into a false confession, sent to prison. To trap Baxter the G-men rig up an elaborate escape for Miss Sidney, shadow her every move. The infatuated public enemy manages to harass her while eluding his pursuers and robbing a football stadium, almost ruins her romance with Melvyn Douglas before he is shot. For cinemaddicts who are not ruffled by uneven pacing and exaggerated detail, Mary Burns, Fugitive has enough taut sequences to be entertaining...
...conspirator. Slowly she came to understand that a deep sense of futility was destroying the organization, embittering her lover's life. Despite all the self-sacrifice and passion of individual members, V. M. R. 0. was degenerating into a tool of the great powers, who employed it to harass rivals, reduced it to the level of hired gunmen. When
...Deal bill to crack down on them-hardly mattered. To bankers negotiating foreign loans a negative shake of the State Department's head has almost always been enough to squelch any deal. Though it is unthinkable that any administration should deliberately use laws enacted for other purposes to harass those who do defy its wishes, most businessmen know they would be foolhardy indeed to risk offending the eternal bureaucracy which at any time is able to do a number of unthinkable things...
...past month saucer-eyed Annie has almost entirely disappeared from Cartoonist Harold Gray's strip and the adults associated with her have engaged in a riot of skulduggery. Two villains, Claude Claptrap, a popular demagog, and J. Gordon Slugg, financier, have emerged to harass Annie's foster-parent, Daddy Warbucks, who continues to be a model of industrious honesty. He has begun to market a remarkable new building material when Slugg and Claptrap rouse a mob to burn the factory and kill the inventor. That crime ruins the enterprise and Daddy Warbucks. Daddy behaves with restraint and fortitude...
Since in Russia it has always been more important to know the exceptions than to know the rules, citizens of Moscow accepted with stoicism last week the revelation that in their Soviet midst a total of 1,667 Capitalist landlords have survived to harass the proletariat with extortionate rents. According to the Government Press, which professed itself scandalized, one Moscow landlady is now suing before a Red court to compel a proletarian family to pay her a bonus of 5,000 rubles for the privilege of not being evicted. When the suit appeared to be dragging on. Moscow...