Word: taunting
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...cleaned-up version of the taunt made in Moscow last year when an enraged Nikita Khrushchev shouted at Hoxha: "Comrade, you have covered me with dung. You will have to wash...
Singing & Dancing. The term Shakers -like Quakers-was originally a derisive taunt by "the world's people"; their official name is the United Society of Believers. The society was founded by a puissant prophetess named Mother Ann Lee, the daughter of a British blacksmith, who brought her eight original disciples to America in 1774. They settled in Watervliet, N.Y. to live, in the words of Mother Ann, "as though you had 1,000 years to live and as you would if you knew you must die tomorrow...
...eight led both leagues in hits and was a big reason for his team's surge into a three-way American League battle for first place. For a superb fielder who was always kidded as a patsy at the plate (New York Yankee Slugger Mickey Mantle used to taunt him, "Don't forget your glove"), it was quite a performance...
Perkins described the Greyhound's trip through the Carolinas and Georgia as relatively peaceful, but he said, once the bus passed into Alabama, people began to taunt, "You ain't in Georgia now. You in Alabama." He told how a mob burned the bus after stopping it a few miles out of Anniston and throwing a fire bomb through a window...
...course of a lifetime that stretched from 1780 to 1867. Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres was reviled and honored and reviled again, but he scorned both tribute and taunt. "I took the road of the masters." he told his students. "That is what I did, gentlemen; I took the road of Raphael." This week 73 of his masterly drawings and paintings went on display at Manhattan's Paul Rosenberg Gallery, thus bringing together for the first time the bulk of Ingres' works owned by U.S. museums and collectors. The gallery professed itself pleasantly surprised that such "an important...