Word: jeer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hodes and several other civil rights workers were distributing registration formed in the main Negro marketplace in Greenwood. The square is at the edge of the white district, and a crowd of whites formed across the street to jeer...
Garnett's heroines are 14-year-old twin sisters, Fan and Niss, who have managed to stow away aboard the ark. Noah is a bearded, wine-guzzling patriarch who, during 20 years of building the ark, has never lost faith that he "walked with God." When the townspeople jeer him, Noah thunders: "God will sweep you all away, but He loves me and my children for we are His servants...
Aber No Sweat. As a result, Anglicisms are now weirdly lodged in most major languages. Russian futbol fans cheer a fourvard's goal, jeer an offside penalty. Western-vowed stilyagi (Teddy boys) call themselves Tom, Dick or Harry, and breakfast on corn flakes...
...fleshy six-footer, Fehsenfeld blocked the doorway of Dizzyland with his own bulk. The demonstrators knelt on the sidewalk, prayed and sang. A crowd gathered to jeer the Negroes and cheer Fehsenfeld. Inspired, Fehsenfeld kicked a few demonstrators, picked up a Negro girl and dragged her away from the door, smashed an egg on the head of a white demonstrator...
...huge load stuck in the doorway. Then, as he stumbled along dirt paths and darkened, cobbled streets, struggled painfully up flights of ancient granite stairs, his bare feet began to bleed. Throngs of villagers and 15,000 tourists in Sartene for the occasion gathered along the route to jeer. Three times the Catenacciu fell under his burden, and each time a fellow penitent playing the part of Simon of Cyrene whispered fiercely: "Get up! You asked for this!" At last it was all over, and as The Enchained One was whisked away in Father Scuitti's Renault, candles were...