Word: taunt
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...somebody else writing his story," says psychologist Samuel Harrell, who consulted on the BTK case in the 1970s. "He's all ego." But he was not trying to get caught--he didn't think he could be caught. All the poems and puzzles he created over the years to taunt the police were peppered with clues to his identity, like a word search he sent to a TV station last May packed with terms like "lost pet" and "6220"--his house number on Independence Street in Park City. But he was just showing off, a peacock fanning out its feathers...
...skyrocketing. Rafail Islamgazin, a retired army colonel, wrote to the daily Komsomolskaya Pravda about how the law affects him: "I received some $250 [worth of] benefits, but my monetary compensation is now $31 while my utility bills have increased by 150%. The state must really hate its defenders to taunt them like this." The cutbacks triggered protests all across Russia, and a rare volley of criticism aimed directly at President Putin. "With this legislation, Putin has delegitimized his office," says Mikhail Delyagin, an economist and director of the Institute of Modernization. "He's created the threat of a major state...
...criticized the Bush administration’s inaction in the face of global warming, and even dipped into his bag of jokes to taunt the man who beat him out for the presidency...
...just when I thought it would never abate, I was given a glimmer of hope. It was hope, not so much for America, but for my pride, for my ability to say something in response to the taunt which endlessly repeats in my head like a broken record, “but, the American people actually chose him this time...
...game's dominant pitchers, the Yankees seemed to have his number. After another loss to them in late September, he blurted out, "I just tip my hat and call the Yankees my daddy." Ever sensitive New York fans quickly added, "Who's your Dad-dy?" to the 1918 taunt. But by the thick of this year's playoffs, Pedro too had adapted the team's "Why not us?" attitude. He pitched a gem in the World Series...