Word: taunting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What do the Republicans propose to do in Korea? The question, so recently a taunt in angry campaign debate, is now a challenge written in the hard facts of the precarious U.S. position in Asia. Last week the U.S. got a look at a strong "positive proposal" for Korea drawn by New Hampshire's Senator Styles Bridges, a ranking Republican policymaker. Bridges' proposal, published in the American Mercury, carried special weight because Ike Eisenhower reportedly read it in manuscript during the last days of the campaign...
...After years of listening to a tuneless whistling sound his wife made whenever she wished to taunt him, Emile Scheermaeker. a 52-year-old Woonsocket. R.I. machinist, could stand no more. Raging like a wild beast, he smashed her head with a clawhammer, ran the bathtub full of water, and held her under until he was sure that she was dead...
...Barkley had worked faithfully to get through a $10.5 billion Administration tax bill, came out with $2.3 billion, which he knew was the best that Congress could produce in an election year. Roosevelt rejected the $2.3 billion bill with a stinging veto message, penciling in the taunt that the bill was really "a tax-relief bill, providing relief not for the needy but for the greedy...
...level of those in the U.S., Fyfe replied, patriotically: "I am not impressed by analogies from the United States. We have our typical British way of resolving problems of taste . . . We are a much more mature and sophisticated people." Labor's Herbert Morrison interrupted to taunt: "That sounds like anti-Americanism." With feigned astonishment, Fyfe replied: "I am very surprised that the right honorable gentleman should take me to task for paying a compliment to our fellow citizens...
...Assembly. "This is human rights in the U.S.A.," he cried triumphantly. The U.S., whose constitutional processes had protected the civil rights of Walter Irvin through tedious and careful procedures unknown to Vishinsky's masters, would want a good and careful answer for Vishinsky's taunt...