Word: hounding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Examiner's new editor, Burgin signed up Columnists Thompson and Cyra McFadden, author of The Serial, a send-up of Marin County mores. Hearst wooed away Warren Hinckle, an eccentric Chronicle columnist who bludgeons miscreants, real and imagined, in print and never goes anywhere without his basset hound, Bentley. When Frank McCulloch, 66, a veteran journalist who had just retired as executive editor of the California- based McClatchy Newspapers, interviewed Burgin for a magazine story, Burgin persuaded McCulloch within 15 minutes to become the paper's managing editor...
...like the ordinance, and still dislike pornography, what are you going to do about it?" asked the self-proclaimed artist, anarchist and lover of free speech. "If I don't support the ordinance does that mean I'm a pro-pornography hound...
...turf, rarely bothering the citizens uptown, the new gangs are becoming highly mobile, moving easily around a city and sometimes across the country. West Coast police report that Vietnamese groups may strike one night in San Jose, a couple of nights later in Dallas or Washington. Chinese gangs hound their prey all over the country. "They operate as though any Chinese person anywhere is fair game," according to a recent FBI report...
Although Hutton does succeed in endearing himself to the audience with his basset-hound looks and giggly naivete, he is restricted by Clark's homogenous direction and lack of originality. In addition to boring us with 45 endless minutes of Jimmy plastering his insignia on everything in sight. Clark refuses to let his character develop anything but superficial personalities. Admittedly appealing in a teddy-bearish sort of way. Hutton's Lynch is essentially nothing more than an anti-social wise guy whose highly limited intelligence seriously puts into question his ability to evade detection from the police for as long...
...bishops chose not to press the dispute, but it continued to hound Ferraro in the form of antiabortion hecklers. In handling their taunts, she demonstrated mettle as well as crowd-pleasing adroitness. When pro-Reagan and antiabortion demonstrators erupted noisily at the University of Texas in Arlington, Ferraro shouted, "If I had a record like Ronald Reagan's, I wouldn't want anybody to hear about it either." At another point she silenced hecklers by poking fun at her own staccato delivery: "You've figured out how to stop this New Yorker from talking too quickly...