Word: taunt
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Tanner’s taunt was so unremarkable—and the resultant penalty so unexpected—that the students behind Harvard’s bench began to mercilessly heckle cornerback Steve Williams. The Tiger faithful thought that it was the junior, not Tanner, who had committed a personal foul...
...Democratic Party headquarters in Springfield, Missouri's third-largest city, which is deep in the heart of Republican territory and former U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft's hometown. When McCaskill campaigns in Springfield, she's often followed by Republican protesters who call her a liberal Hillary Clinton wannabe and taunt her with signs reading "New York's Third Senator...
...blood-red waters of civil strife. The Taliban is resurgent in Afghanistan. Hizballah is crowing in the wake of Israel's inconclusive attacks. Hamas runs the Palestinian Authority. Iran is drawing closer to acquiring nuclear weapons. Osama bin Laden and his top deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri, continue to taunt the West with messages of defiance, as jihadist cells from London to Lahore plot fresh attacks...
...Aguilera's paparazzi-stalked life. But all too often she breaks the spell to remind us, just in case we're wondering, that she's "still got that freak" and is Still Dirrty. If we're monitoring her feud with a former producer, there's a score-settling taunt ("Looks like I didn't need you"). And anyone who finishes both discs with unanswered questions about her much publicized marriage to music executive Jordan Bratman is obviously stone deaf. Aguilera isn't singing pop on these songs; she's preaching to an imagined choir, and she saves her worst...
...then later, during a rematch, we have Girard's sublimely ridiculous taunt: "Now the Matador shall dance with the blind shoemaker...