Word: jeers
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...Only the third one of its kind since the onset of his seemingly endless tenure, Dartboard had begun to think she’d only conjured the image of this ill-fated president. She quickly realized she had no such luck. So, as the night approached, Dartboard prepared to jeer and mock the out-of-good-graces leader, as is customary. But as she braced herself to wince at mispronunciations, misnomers (Secretary of the State Rumsfeld?) and tragically ill-formed sentences (“This has been tough weeks in that country”) she actually gleaned something useful from...
...We’ll give you a hint: feeling uncomfortable is precisely the point. Please realize that we will feel uncomfortable too. We’ve talked this over with our parents and blockmates and lovers, mulled over how we’ll respond if hecklers jeer or an ancient uncle sees our picture in tomorrow’s Crimson. We’ve decided that personal discomfort is a small price to pay if we can confront this university with an opportunity to think hard about heterosexual privilege. We’ve decided to give you something to chew...
...classic “safety school” chant was dusted off. And after a Cornell fan insisted on striking a cowbell in time to the Big Red fans’ clapping, the Crimson fans and band gave a hearty “Cow Town” jeer...
...prosecutor, Wolfson Professor of Jewish Studies Jay M. Harris had popular opinion on his side, as mere mention of the defendant’s name caused the audience to jeer. Harris defined Haman’s crime as “aiding and abetting” the fun that is associated with the holiday...
...west side of the city. Men are huddled under a blue tent playing ceki, a kind of poker. They scatter as the squad, brandishing clubs and machetes, marches in. But as FPI members smash tables and chairs and then start pulling down the tents, some locals turn and jeer. A brawl almost erupts, but the vagrants lose their nerve and flee. The militants retreat, but not before setting fire to the pile of twisted tarpaulin and scraps of wood...