Word: taunting
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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...
...post office in the morning, or sitting on his porch sipping ginger ale. To them he was a scholarly squire, always ready with a merry bit of gossip, and a fresh flower in his buttonhole. To his mathematics students, he was not always so charming. He could tease or taunt them until some fled in terror. But those who stayed never forgot Professor Henderson, pacing back & forth before them, mixing Homer and Milton with his math...