Word: heckler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hecklers' favorite this season has been Harry Batchelder of Brown, Batchelder, like Bagnall, has spent a lot of time on the bench after playing at Watson. Batchelder's endearing trait was his complete absorption in the heckler's taunts. In the trade, he is known as a "shaper," a goalie who makes unnecessary saves and motions, playing with an artistic flourish in an effort to please the crowd...
Crimson captain Charlie Flynn says that "if you let in a bad goal and listen to the crowd, you'll let in another." Flynn himself ignores hecklers to the point where they can't tell whether or not he hears them. Being ignored is the fatal weakness of the heckler...
...State. For three years he headed British delegation to U.N. A great believer in private conversations and searcher for compromises, he used such phrases as "meeting the Russians halfway," and assiduously courted the Indians as a vehicle for compromise. But he was also U.N.'s most spirited heckler of the Russians, made up fictitious Russian proverbs to confound Vishinsky at his own game ("The more moo, the less milk"), once commented on a repetitious Vishinsky tirade: "Dig that broken record." He entered the Cabinet for the first time as Defense Minister when Eden took over as Prime Minister...
Speech & Contradiction. Ambition-driven Mendès-France not only had little time to get started, but he was also the chief target of systematic hecklers from the right and left, including the strong-arm Poujadists. At a Left Bank rally in Paris, students hooted: "Mendès to the lamppost! Feed him to the jackals!" In his home department of Eure, he urged, in five or six speeches a day, an end to colonial wars abroad and "immobilism" at home. He was constantly interrupted. Usually Mendeès ignored the burly hecklers who make race-hate their specialty...
...Germans," a hoarse voice called out. and trailed off into an accusation that Eden and the Conservatives had sat back on chairs while Britons died in the war. Eden reddened and flared, "I lost two brothers in the first war and my son in the last one." The heckler howled: "You're a scoundrel!" Eden rejoined: "I am quite willing to be called a scoundrel, but I won't let anybody say that I and my family have not done their share for the country...