Word: pesters
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Through all of this, McCurdy has not tried to put pressure on the former star, an All-American in cross country as a sophomore. "I don't want to pester him." McCurdy said Wednesday before Pottetti came to talk to him. "It's not in me to tell him he owes the team something...
...help the child comprehend that actions have causes. In this period, the child is not egocentric by choice. Parents should understand, says the University of Rochester's David Elkind, a leading Piaget scholar, that intellectual immaturity and not moral perversity is the reason why a preschooler continues to pester his mother even after she plainly tells him she has a headache...
...other half of the book, Albert Handley-a middle-aged madcap painter presiding over a whole circus of a family in Lincolnshire-rages against the sudden wealth and new-found fame threatening his old bohemian way of life. His children pester him for money, journalists hound him for interviews. Visions of unborn paintings torment his days and nights. He, too, claims to be a revolutionary-making money so that he can tear down the social structure that feeds...
...Nation, Essay, Modern Living and Sport. Their jobs involve hours of extra work. Don Morrison, our stringer at the University of Pennsylvania, is an extremely busy campus editor and honors student who admits that he is sometimes exasperated when students, faculty and administrators-not to mention TIME staffers-pester him at odd hours with queries, requests, suggestions and sometimes complaints about what TIME has said. How ever, his occasional chagrin disappears when a campus source, trying to put over an idea to TIME, will tell him, as one did recently: "See what you can do, Don. They listen...
...from Viet Nam, where he had been sergeant major of the 1st Infantry Division (The Big Red One) whose C.O., Major General Jonathan O. Seaman, says flatly that Wooldridge is "the best soldier in the Army." Articulate and tough-minded, the Texas-reared sergeant vows that he will not "pester General Johnson with the complaints of people who only think they have problems"-but intimates that he has views of his own and will press them...