Word: taunt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their prisoners reason ably well and released five of them, mainly for medical reasons. Said one of the British hostages, Embassy Employee Ronald Morris, 47: "We were on first-name terms, swapping cigarettes and even joking eased." in moments when the tension But on Sunday, the gunmen began to taunt their Iranian hostages by scrawling slogans on the embassy walls: DEATH TO KHOMEINI and DOWN WITH THE NEW SHAH. This particularly enraged the embassy's assistant press attache, Abbas Lavasani, 29, who argued with his captors and defended Khomeini's Islamic revolution. At one point...
...have to wonder and fear where we will be after four more years of the Carter Administration." This sort of taunt, shouted by Senator Edward Kennedy at the Pennsylvania AFL-CIO convention last week, is stirring considerable anxiety in the White House...
...dark blue summer suit, a white shirt, and a tight jaw? Would you believe that Walter Reuther's salary in 1945 was just $7,000 while that of the president of General Motors was $459,000? Did you know that Stokely Carmichael not only spoke Yiddish but liked to taunt Southern Sheriffs with "Kish mir tuchas, baby," and that Ted Gold, one of the Weathermen responsible for firebombing Justice John Murtagh's home in 1970, was actually "shy, almost professorial" by nature? And the historical data is just as painstakingly chronicled: dates, times, and characters are placed just...