Word: taunting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...incompetence have brought us into greater danger ... In every quarter of the world we are regarded by our friends with anxiety, with wonder and pity; and by our enemies . . . with hostility or even contempt. . . Not one of them is so weak they cannot spare a quip or even a taunt for Britain. [Yet] we have but to cast away, by an effort of will, the enfeebling tendencies and fallacies of socialism . . ." Bevan and the other ministers who resigned had "rendered a public service," said Churchill, by drawing attention to the government's failure to buy necessary raw materials...
Turn of the Screw. In Tulsa, a vengeful thug stole a police car from headquarters, used its two-way radio to taunt the cops in the station, got clean away...
...door, islands to be defended one by one. But the steppingstones had to be seen. The globe, for instance, did not show the masses of empty tundra stretching inland from the western coast like sloshy, moldy pudding. No map could hint the subzero temperatures that could cripple an army, taunt it with frostbite, hold it to a mile-a-day advance through roadless mountains and plains...
...reaction to the riding he took (and still takes) was typical. Boos burned him up, though he asked for them, and he could not help hearing every loud taunt from the bleachers. He had what ballplayers call "rabbit ears," which pricked and blushed at every hostile sound. "Why do they cheer me for hitting a homer," he asked, "and then boo me for grounding out the next time up? I'm still the same guy, ain't I? ... They can all go to hell. I'll never tip my cap to them." Baseball Immortal Eddie Collins...
...neither happy nor faithful. Yet when the unknown guest agrees to bring Lavinia back, Edward is curiously glad; and though he has had a much sounder relation with Celia Coplestone (Irene Worth), he now doesn't want her. When Lavinia does come back, she and Edward neurotically taunt each other...