Word: jeering
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...tone, women's liberation magazines don't appeal strongly, at first, to anyone who can't join in the complaint. Especially when the complaint is. "We women are unhappy with our sexual and social role," most readers tend to make a detour around this literature, if they don't jeer and throw tomatoes...
...That was Firebrand Danny Cohn-Bendit, leveling a barrage of billingsgate at Herbert Marcuse, the aging Pied Piper of the New Left, who appeared at Rome's Eliseo Theater to give a lecture, "Beyond the One-Dimensional Man." Danny and some 2,500 Italian students turned out to jeer their former idol following trumped-up charges made by U.S. Communist Party Chief Gus Hall at a Moscow press conference. Hall claimed that Marcuse had been "exposed as working for the CIA since World War II" and was "part of a plot to get youth moving toward radicalism...
Organizers had billed it in advance as "the biggest antiwar demonstration in history," predicting that up to 50,000 demonstrators would assemble to jeer the President when he arrived at the Century Plaza Hotel in West Los Angeles. The morning of Johnson's speech before a $500-a-plate President's Club dinner, a three-page ad proclaimed: "As of this date, we 8,000 Democrats of Southern California are disassociating ourselves from you because of your conduct of the war in Viet...
Break with his party and jeer him in the press...
...chief criticism of SDS is its emphasis on working outside of the political institutions, prefering to picket rather than support sympathetic candidates for office, to jeer at McNamara or Goldberg rather than to encourage a Vance Hartke or Mark Hatfield. Republicans, on the other hand, believe in the wisdom of working within the institutions and have often proven its success. Yet the Club members who pulled last week's travesty violated this principle in making a mockery of the SDS elections. In so doing they immediately tossed themselves in the same political category as the people with whom they wanted...