Word: jeered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last three years, they've come to Boston Garden almost every night, come to jeer Curtis Rowe and Sidney Wicks and to watch Celtics. They've kept coming because its the only show in town for a basketball fan, and because they've always come, and at the very least they can watch great players wearing opposing unifroms destroy the listless Celts...
...sure no one is doing anything on the other side, turning their night sticks and batons over and over in their hands. It doesn't calm them down when you demand to know about their potentially mutant grandchildren and tell them, "We're doing this for you." Construction workers jeer--one hurls bricks, another pokes through the fence with a sharpened stick...
...typewriter stuffed with lusty words. He churned out blockbusters like The Carpetbaggers, The Adventurers and The Inheritors, books crammed with characters who caress and curse, curse and caress their way through life. "I'm a people writer," he has explained. And right he is: though critics may jeer his work is "tripe" and "crud," the people have made him a millionaire many times over. A mansion in Beverly Hills! A villa in Cannes! And an empire of readers throughout the world! Some time this month, a fan will buy the 200-millionth paperback copy of a Harold Robbins novel...
...sardonically that he "would have been a real big shot" at the academy had he not become involved in the scandal. During his year in purgatory, spent back home in West Islip, N.Y., working as a kitchen helper and steeplejack, his parents got calls from anonymous taunters who would jeer, "I hear your son's a cheat." After all that, the Point seems like paradise. "I requested to go to my old company," he says, "and they've been great...
...suspected narcotics traffickers in the biggest drug bust ever launched along the Tex-Mex border. In all, 62 people had been indicted. As the handcuffed prisoners were unloaded from official cars at the border patrol office in Rio Grande City (pop. 6,000), townspeople gathered to applaud and jeer, "You finally...