Word: molestation
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...mild saturnalia. When the SPARS and tars boarded the tug,_ a keg of rum was close at hand. The tug crew, said the witnesses, was already so far in its cups that only two were fit for duty. The others were good-natured but persistent. They began to "molest" the SPARS. What the U.S. sailors did about it was not reported. But a civilian forcibly restrained a Canadian sailor from "molesting" a SPAR. At last the tug's skipper turned around and raced for shore...
...arms' distance. Chinese and Japanese officers sometimes share fabulous profits from the smuggling of tungsten, cotton, wool, tin, tung oil, U.S. bank notes. Chinese divisions in the war-quiet areas operate their own factories and farms, direct their energies toward a stable military economy. The Japanese rarely molest them. These activities cannot be judged by Western standards; they are the natural consequences of a long, stalemated war which neither side is equipped...
...until Britain traitorously declares war on the Boers does the Nazi propaganda begin to make hay. British troops come to the farm of Krüger's pacifistic, English-educated son, Jan (Werner Hinz), molest his wife, drive him into the Boer forces. In a concentration camp his wife and children are starved, whaled with rifle butts by the sadistic British. Dead prisoners lie in open ditches while bored guards cover them with quicklime. The camp commandant lives the life of Riley with a mistress and a puffy bulldog to whom he feeds juicy steaks. Meantime Lord Kitchener announces...
...enemy was hurled back by the British and French troops. He was so roughly handled that he dared not molest their departure seriously. The Air Force decisively defeated the main strength of the German Air Force and inflicted on them a loss of at least four...
...They [the Nazis] have not chosen to molest the British Fleet, which has awaited their attack in the Firth of Forth during last week. They recoil from the steel front of the French Army along the Maginot Line. But their docile conscripts are being crowded in vast numbers upon the frontiers of Holland and Belgium. To both these States the Nazis have given most recent and solemn guarantees. No wonder anxiety is great. No one believes one word Hitler and the Nazi Party say and therefore we must regard that situation as grave. . . . If we are conquered, all will...