Word: pestered
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...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...
Corruption, "mess in Washington." Just a few days ago we heard about the mayor of a large eastern city who recently had occasion to announce that he wished people wouldn't pester him to fix yellow tickets. He could only manage the red ones--for parking. It never occurred to the businessman who told us this story (an ardent opponent of "Truman corruption") that this was itself a form of corruption--to him the fixing of tickets had no moral significance at all. The plain fact is that a certain amount of corruption is fundamental to the American...
...Kutno, Poland, Sholem Asch used to pester his mother with the question: "Why has God divided mankind into Jew and Gentile?" With a rollicking brood of ten boys and five girls on her hands, Mother Asch had "other things to think about." But the question plagued Sholem Asch, eventually led him to become a religious novelist...
Pessimists who fear that science is exhausting nature's mysteries can take fresh hope from a newly published book: The Natural History of Mosquitoes, by Dr. Marston Bates (Macmillan; $5). Mosquitoes punch holes in man; they pester him, keep him awake, infect him with deadly diseases. So well-financed scientists, determined to deal with mosquitoes, have studied them intensively for more than half a century, accumulating a vast amount of information. But, as Dr. Bates points out, they have hardly begun to find out how even the best-known species go about their business...