Word: pestered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...erroneous legend persists that F.D.R.'s first important story came through a bold interview with President Eliot. Then, as now, there was a rule forbidding candidates to pester the University's top administrators. But, ignorant of this, the story goes, Roosevelt approached Eliot and asked him how he was going to vote in the 1900 presidential election. The legend has several variations, all of which glorify F.D.R. as a brash, bright young man who charms the story from Eliot through sheer daring...
Years ago, a Cambined Charities Drive was supposed to be a panacca for all the ills of student philanthropy. No longer would charity after charity pester students with its own door-to-door drive; instead, students could "give once and give generously" and then forget about charities for the rest of the year. The reasoning behind this week's Combined Charities Drive remains basically the same, but most people today realize that a single solicitation for a number of charities creates an ailment almost as bad as the former rash of individual drives. Simply stated, student donations have fallen...
...second requirement was not so simple: good-conduct clearance from the local town hall. Other braceros, however, provided a tip. Serrano could pester officials and wait-or he could put up a few hundred pesos to bribe the "coyote," a man with unexplained but indisputable pull among town officials. Coyote Raúl Díaz readily confirmed the advice. "You pay," he said, "and you go." Serrano was bewildered and angry. "We are needed," he argued. "We are asked to go. Why should...
...questioning died out gradually and the photographers began to pester Mrs. Furry about bringing down the children so they could take a family group picture. Mrs. Furry was dubious; she didn't want to get the children mixed up in it. She complained to the Post man that his paper had misquoted her the day before. Finally she agreed to be photographed with her husband, and they sat down on the living room couch while flashbulbs lit up the children's books and the phonograph records scattered around the shelves...
...versa. Homosexuality is not inherited and has little (usually nothing) to do with hormone balance. But many homosexuals refuse to admit this, and they reject the psychiatric treatment which offers them some chance of a normal social life. Many of them wear the clothes of the opposite sex, and pester endocrinologists for hormone injections to make them more, not less abnormal...