Word: taunting
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...Connecticut this year, students from both schools will inevitably imbibe alcoholic beverages, taunt their supposed archrivals, and pull for their teams in a gridiron matchup that ultimately concerns little more than pride...
...then cause him to lash out. So everywhere Dole went last week--from Arizona to South Carolina to Georgia, to Mississippi and Florida--Gramm nipped at his heels. In unsolicited call-ins to radio shows and newspapers along Dole's route, Gramm touted his showing and urged reporters to taunt Dole about Iowa. They did, but Dole didn't take the bait. "Iowa wasn't my personal stumble," Dole told me last week. "My organization should have done better. We should have won. But my stumble--and it could do me in, I know--will only come if I lose...
Koernke's former neighbor in Gallagher Lake Estates (about 15 miles north of the dilapidated farmhouse Koernke, his wife and four children occupy today outside the town of Dexter) recalls him as friendless. On the 20-minute walk home from the school-bus stop younger children would taunt the gangly, bespectacled high school student and slap his books from his hands. His former classmates and teachers at Dexter High School remember him as having one or two friends but also, as one puts it, "some exotic ideas." Several remember he wore fatigues to school, a peculiar fashion choice at that...
...There was no June moon in the lurid Leiber landscape; it was a night town of train wrecks (Black Denim Trousers and Motorcycle Boots) and knife Ūghts (the show's title song), sawmill slicings (Along Came Jones) and countless jailbreaks. Even a love song could sound like a taunt when Leiber wrote it. Consider the capper to the Peggy Lee I'm a Woman: "I can make a dress out of a feed bag and I can make a man out of you." Pop music was supposed to be kid stuff; Leiber and Stoller gave it a stiff drink...
However, neither team did any building at all in the first period. The most dramatic moment occurred when Harvard freshman Doug Sproule collided with RPI goalie Mike Tamburro, angering the junior netminder and inciting the crowd to taunt...