Word: taunting
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Leave it to Iraq's tenacious ruler to taunt his enemies and torture his people when he's supposed to be good and dead. Even after the second U.S. strike on a purported hiding place, even after his government had vanished and the statues had toppled, it required a leap of faith for the people of Iraq to believe he would never be able to touch them again. The streets of Baghdad itched with rumors. The Americans missed him by 10 minutes or 10 yards. He's in Russia, in Syria, on an island off the coast of Spain...
...balladeer. His spectacularly intense rendition of "I Believe," excerpted on the recent NBC special "Elvis Lives," proves that his inside the bloated body was the soul of a gospel-tinged Caruso. The under-the-balcony tenorizing of "It's Now or Never," the final detonation of pain and taunt in "Are You Lonesome Tonight?", the choir-soloist power of the hymn "He Touched Me" - his voice breaking poignantly at the end of the hymn, as if he had just seen Jesus - these still thrill and haunt. So does his desire to please an audience of kids and grandmas instead...
Iraq, Iran and North Korea were somewhat improbably lumped together by President Bush last February as an "Axis of Evil." This week, however, all three seemed to pop up and taunt America with threats, proven or unproven, of weapons of mass destruction...
Fitzpatrick was even preparing to taunt Arnold with “Roseanne” jokes if the Harvard ribbing got too strong...
...During last week’s football game, unruly Brown fans harangued butter-fingered wide receiver Kevin P. Huff ’05 with the taunt that he “couldn’t even catch syphilis.” The events of Saturday night proved them wrong...