Word: taunting
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Upon the completion of Nader’s speech, the gloves were dropped and any pretense of civility was abandoned. Members of the Harvard College Democrats bum-rushed the microphones with glee—wearing matching tees—to bait and taunt Nader with questions such as: “How do you feel knowing that over 1,000 people died in Iraq because you ran for president?” For his part, Nader responded obstinately, often attacking the questioner instead of his or her logic. Throughout the question and answer session a contingent of Lyndon LaRouche supporters...
...President Bush likes to taunt that if John Kerry had been president, Saddam Hussein would still be in power. Kerry advocates counter that keeping Saddam contained would have allowed the U.S. to make far more headway in its battle against al-Qaeda, which Operation Iraqi Freedom has not only detracted from, but has also made considerably more difficult. (Rather late in the game, Kerry surrogates have begun to point out that Saddam Hussein did not rank even in the top three national security threats to the United States at the time of the invasion, but occupying Iraq has weakened...
...warmth and sharing and openness of his old home has been replaced with jealousy, greed and distrust. In desperation, he wanders the town shouting and asking what has happened to his village. But the people do not hear him. They dismiss him as a crazy old man; children taunt...
...Tzamaloukas had stopped dancing. The absence of the tram had turned into a taunt. "We are very sensitive at the moment," said Evangelos Stathatos, a teacher. "It's this Olympics business." Stathatos was speaking not of the record $7.2 billion that Greece is pouring into the Games nor of the frantic sprint to modernize Athens but of something more personal and painful: the worldwide presumption that the reputedly party-loving, responsibility-shirking Greeks are about to screw up one of humanity's more pleasant diversions. "The world believes that Athens is not ready, that we do not know...
...resign after his highly controversial accolades regarding the late Strom Thurmond. These are just some of the instances in which other minority groups have defied acts of racism. One writer of AsianWeek surmised, “If a white [basketball] player had, for instance, made monkey sounds to taunt a black player, it would have been a national controversy.” Yet O’Neal’s actions and words against Yao were just as despicable, and America didn’t even blink twice...