Word: taunt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cuba's outward tranquillity, however, was being synthetically inflamed by Fidel Castro, who was crying that the U.S. planned to do him harm. He almost seemed to be trying to taunt the U.S. into intervening-and most Cubans thought a J.S. attack to be a live possibility. Hotel telephone operators answered calls by saying, "Fatherland or Death! Number, please." For the second time in less than a week, the U.S. protested Castro's "slander'-specifically a propaganda pamphlet charging the U.S. with blowing up a munitions ship in Havana harbor last March. At week...
...Turk could tolerate such a taunt. Deputies scrambled over benches to fight. One man stood in his tracks, weeping with rage. Police rushed in, and the session adjourned. Later the majority formally voted to expel Ismet Inonu, leader of the opposition, hero of two wars. President of Turkey from 1938 to 1950, for twelve sessions...