Word: taunts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...gossip columnist, he is beginning to realize that his delusion is irrational. Sometimes just reading the paper* has helped. A paragraph in the June issue jibed: "To -- on Hall 7, are you still chasing spirits all over the place? Catch any?" Roused out of his seclusion by the taunt, the patient on Hall 7 explained to his doctor that he wasn't seeing ghosts as normal people think of them, but "seeing" the animosities of people he came into contact with...
...British!" "Down with Truman!" Abdullah came out of the palace alone, faced the mob unarmed, except for a silver-handled dagger. He asked a wide-eyed question: "Why do you disturb the rest of a devout Moslem in the heat of the day during Ramadan?" Then he hurled a taunt: "Why are you not enrolled in the ranks of the army instead of a mob? Transjordan is my heart, and my mission is to save both Transjordan and Palestine." The mob melted away. To the world he said: "The way to settle ... is to negotiate...
...Gasperi flung a final taunt at Di Vittorio, who sat sullenly near the empty chair of Togliatti: "Before the Confederation of Labor decided to resume work, the conscience of the majority of the workers had already called off the strike." This was a telling shaft; even before the strike officially expired (Thursday midnight), workers were returning to factories here & there, shops were pulling up their shutters, and the brightly dressed creatures of Via Veneto were emerging once more from their palatial hideouts...
...American Activities subcommittee put Communist Benjamin Davis, a New York City councilman and member of the Communist Party's national executive board, in its witness chair. Negro Ben Davis was happy at the chance to taunt the committee, which he called "tainted with illegality." He defied Congress to pass a bill requiring U.S. Communists to register as agents of a foreign nation, predicted that Communists would simply ignore it. Said Davis: "We . . . refuse to be put in the category of political suspects. . . . Gentlemen, it is not within your power to legislate the failure of this mighty movement...