Word: jeers
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...bands, amplified by loudspeakers, could be heard on both sides of the Wall. On the second night 3,000 young East Germans gathered to listen to the music from the West. A police line blocked them from approaching the border fortifications, and as the crowd began to chant and jeer, the police charged, dragging dozens of young people to security vans...
...quotes to prove that before he walked out of the National Party in 1982, Treurnicht had supported the policies that he now vigorously denounced. The Conservatives, Du Plessis said, "are living in a dream world. We cannot enforce a system of absolute separation." It was the Conservatives' turn to jeer, forcing the Speaker of Parliament to call repeatedly for order...
Martha Friend of the Boston Area Rape Crisis Center opened the rally, saying, "We found ourselves living in a culture that condones and in fact, promotes it [rape]. Every time a whistle or jeer is defended as a compliment, our rape culture is enforced...
...troupe," the group of inmates who do not have specific roles in Sade's play, but behave as a sort of raving chorus. Like naughty children, they play leapfrog, poke each other's middles, and pull each other's hair. They pick at their noses and masturbate, they jeer at actors who forget their lines...
...born again" and founded the Franciscan order, is a Cuomo favorite. The Governor suggested that if St. Francis were alive today, his ascetic devotion to the poor, sick and oppressed might have led him to progressive politics and the ideals of the Democratic Party. Though Republicans may jeer at Cuomo's sudden secularization of a saint and dismiss his remarks about Darwinism as the origin of the specious, Democrats hope that the erudite comparison will serve them well in drawing the battle lines for the fall campaign...