Word: taunts
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...After years of listening to a tuneless whistling sound his wife made whenever she wished to taunt him, Emile Scheermaeker. a 52-year-old Woonsocket. R.I. machinist, could stand no more. Raging like a wild beast, he smashed her head with a clawhammer, ran the bathtub full of water, and held her under until he was sure that she was dead...
...Barkley had worked faithfully to get through a $10.5 billion Administration tax bill, came out with $2.3 billion, which he knew was the best that Congress could produce in an election year. Roosevelt rejected the $2.3 billion bill with a stinging veto message, penciling in the taunt that the bill was really "a tax-relief bill, providing relief not for the needy but for the greedy...
...level of those in the U.S., Fyfe replied, patriotically: "I am not impressed by analogies from the United States. We have our typical British way of resolving problems of taste . . . We are a much more mature and sophisticated people." Labor's Herbert Morrison interrupted to taunt: "That sounds like anti-Americanism." With feigned astonishment, Fyfe replied: "I am very surprised that the right honorable gentleman should take me to task for paying a compliment to our fellow citizens...
...Assembly. "This is human rights in the U.S.A.," he cried triumphantly. The U.S., whose constitutional processes had protected the civil rights of Walter Irvin through tedious and careful procedures unknown to Vishinsky's masters, would want a good and careful answer for Vishinsky's taunt...
...incompetence have brought us into greater danger ... In every quarter of the world we are regarded by our friends with anxiety, with wonder and pity; and by our enemies . . . with hostility or even contempt. . . Not one of them is so weak they cannot spare a quip or even a taunt for Britain. [Yet] we have but to cast away, by an effort of will, the enfeebling tendencies and fallacies of socialism . . ." Bevan and the other ministers who resigned had "rendered a public service," said Churchill, by drawing attention to the government's failure to buy necessary raw materials...