Word: pester
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Correspondents are allowed to file 500 words a day, but the transmission facilities are so busy with military matters that the dispatches usually fail to get through. Troopers everywhere pester the correspondents to report news of their individual safety, always ask when reinforcements will arrive...
Individual star of the tournament was Dick pester of the Puritan team, who took first place in the discus throw, fifth in the javelin, and set a new House record in putting the 12-pound shot 49 feet 10 1/4 inches...
Crux of the Budapest-Bucharest discord has been Transylvania, which Hungary lost to Rumania in 1918. Last week Hungarian newspapers, notably the semiofficial Pester Lloyd, mouthpiece of ambitious Foreign Minister Count Stephen Csáky, turned on a vitriolic press campaign charging the most horrible atrocities against a most helpless minority in Transylvania-the Szeklers...