Word: vexing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...carry-overs from the last century which vex and frustrate educators, there is perhaps none more inefficient than the legacy of a school calendar built around an agricultural life which demanded time off for summer work on the farms...
...voters, Christenberry has contented himself with strained sidewalk handshakes and alliterative speeches. (Wagner, he said last week, was a "municipal Milquetoast" of "dynamic indecision, vigorous vacillation and intrepid inertia.") He has failed to make an issue out of crime, juvenile delinquency, or any other of the problems that vex New Yorkers: e.g., corruption charges against two Democratic city councilmen, city-choking traffic snarls, worsening public schools and the flight of the Giants and Dodgers to California's greener (and greenbacked) pastures...
...written, 'And if the stranger sojourn with you in your land, you shall not vex him. But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be as one born among you and thou shalt love him as thyself.' And the Arabs of Israel are not strangers but citizens with fundamental equal rights. It is clear that no amount of money can possibly compensate for the loss of these lives...
...great many new problems have arisen in the last few years which might both vex and bewilder the casual and occasional popular song listener, In past years, in my own youth, it was sufficient to tap a foot or a finger and perhaps nod the head in time to the music when listening to ballads and such. Rhythm has always supplied a basic human need since that greatest of all songsters, Homer. Somewhere along the line, however, a queerly shaped instrument called "saxophone" came into being. By blowing one's breath into the smaller aperture of said instrument, thence through...
...nonsense which may be impossible ever to get out again." When he became Prime Minister, he never made a political or religious appointment until he was obliged to, and was annoyed when death forced his hand. "Damn it! Another bishop dead!" he would sigh. "I believe they die to vex...