Word: taunt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...expected the Faculty to physically harrass the MP's when they came to arrest the Marine or to taunt them with cries of "Pigs! Pigs!" But, in Cox's words, one expected "something": Faculty members might have made statements of support, or joined the chain which bound Olimpieri to his wife and friends, or brought him food. In short, they might have shared symbolically in the Marine's protest...
...nicely handled, after which Androcles and the Lion perform a waltz that starts in the minor and shifts to major as they dance off into the distance and leave the henpecking Megaera behind. I think I am correct in recalling that, for some reason, Megaera's final triple taunt of "Coward!" has been omitted...
THERE were, to be sure, flickers of the old vigor. The President reorganized U.S. health services to ensure better care. When signing the anti-crime bill, he attached some strongly worded reservations. Before an audience of educators, he defended his Viet Nam policies, and goaded his listeners with a taunt about their own troubles. "I'd be interested to know," said he, "how the pacification program is doing, how much progress you are making in reform, how things are doing in the outlying buildings, and whether you still hold the central administration offices...
...taunt us in the night, Men kill other men at war. Hungry children lying on the floor...
...Geoffrey Crowther became editor, the Economist has attracted talented journalists and first-rate minds. It has rarely taken a far-out position that it has had to retreat from later. It has, in fact, vigorously espoused moderation and often corrected the overcensorious views of other publications. To the common taunt that the Israelis caught the Egyptian air force napping, the Economist replied that it was all but impossible to have guessed the timing of the attack. "Do not let us think that we would have done all that better than the Egyptians...