Word: jeer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first sentence begins, "As a large, unruly audience jammed Jordan Hall to jeer and laugh, Robert Welch...." Although the audience of the Ford Hall Forum may disagree with the speakers they come to hear, they represent the most intelligent, the most cultured, and best mannered people of Boston. The large majority of those who heard Robert Welch were not unruly, and certainly did not "jeer" Mr. Welch or intend him the slightest disrespect. This article insults Boston and the Ford Hall Forum itself when it suggests that the reason for the large audience was the opportunity to ridicule Mr. Welch...
...large, unruly audience jammed Jordan Hall to jeer and laugh, Robert Welch, the founder of the John Birch Society, last night defended his organization against "ludicrous, ridiculous, and rotten" charges of "secrecy and bigotry...
...manufacturers found themselves stuck with slackened production lines, and to keep their plants busy abandoned their insistence on Fair Trade pricing of their products in order to get the discounters' fat orders. At that point, the old-line department stores decided that they had to do more than jeer at the discounters. No longer could a discounter send his customers over to a department store for free demonstration of an appliance or to a music store to listen to a phonograph record, confident that they would come back to buy at the discount price. More and more department stores...
True to professional hockey's lusty tradition, loyal fans of the New York Rangers boo the visiting team, jeer at the referee and greet home-team blunders with showers of eggs and cries of "Ya jerk, ya"-a provincialism once reserved for the bumbling baseball players who inhabited Brooklyn's Ebbets Field. Last week, when the New Yorkers blew a 2-1 lead to the Toronto Maple Leafs, a sullen crowd clustered outside the Ranger dressing room to taunt their tarnished heroes. "Aw, go back to Montreal!" one fan yelled at Player-Coach Doug Harvey. "Whatsamatter, Gump...
...regularly commuted to West Berlin were now cut off from their jobs by official decree. At the city's two biggest squares where East once met West, bustling Potsdamer Platz and the soaring sandstone Brandenburg Gate, thousands of East and West Berliners gathered to gape and to jeer at the scowling Communist troops gripping submachine guns and standing shoulder to shoulder beside a solid phalanx of armored cars. When the crowd moved too close, there was the jab of a Communist bayonet or a sudden blast from the powerful Wasserkanonen (water cannons), the wheeled squirters of the East Berlin...