Word: taunt
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...part in the skirmish, offered to shake hands and forget about it. Fleet-footed Ruben was set down for three days and fined $250-but that was the least of his worries. For as long as he stays in baseball, Ruben's ears will vibrate to the taunt...
...massive stone arches, against a brooding Verona-like background-actually the hills of the Crimea, near Yalta. To the tune of Prokofiev's rather overexalted music, and the gentle narration of a voice in English, the plot thickens speedily; servants of the feuding Montagues and Capulets meet and taunt one another into a brawl that fills the square. Soon the entire cast is introduced: Romeo, handsome and brawny; Friend Mercutio, here a playboy with wonderfully impudent toes; Tybalt, an arrogant, bloodthirsty Capulet; the stony senior Capulets and Montagues; and, last and best, Ulanova's Juliet, not quite girlish...
...uncertainty while Malayans found their political feet. Chief Minister Prince (the Tengku) Abdul Rahman moved immediately to make peace with the Communists, offered an amnesty to Chin Peng, who has been waging guerrilla war in the jungle for eight years (TIME, Jan. 9). Stung by Chin Peng's taunt that Malaya would not be truly independent until it had control of the country's defense and security forces, Prince Abdul Rahman asked the British for full independence. The urgency of the Malayan situation led the British to take the risk. In a cream and-gilt room of London...
Waltzing to the brink of destruction with an H-bomb tucked snugly under his arm may be Mr. Dulles' foolhardy idea of a sort of can-can diplomacy. But the true art of diplomacy remains neither to taunt nor to boast nor berate but to persuade. This is the art Mr. Dulles completely lacks. Wherever he has traveled, he has made us no friends. He has proved more an irritant internationally than a salve...
...unfortunate that Fanny attached no importance whatever to her writing, and that she accepted, though with injured feelings, Louis' good-natured taunt that she had the "soul of a peasant." A mere four years with Fanny Stevenson's steady eye leaves the reader wanting more...