Word: taunted
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Certainly everyone has heard the well-known adage "Lesley to bed, Wellesley to wed, and Radcliffe to talk." The Harvard men who most frequently use the taunt loudly bemoan the dearth of social life and attractive females at Harvard, and openly advertise their trysts with girls at other colleges and junior colleges. Accustomed to being called "Cliffie bitches," and frigid ones at that, Harvard women develop a not-surprising feeling of antagonism towards females from other colleges, whom they frequently see populating the Harvard House parties and dating Harvard...
...approximately 25,000 fans in New Orleans' Superdome-and especially to Leonard-when Duran simply quit fighting 2 min. 44 sec. into the eighth round of their 15-round match. Duran first waved a dismissive fist at Leonard, then turned away. Leonard, thinking the gesture a taunt from the proud Panamanian who had sneered at him in contempt throughout the early rounds, closed in with a flurry of punches. Duran turned his back to the blows. Referee Octavio Meyron separated the fighters, then waved them in to fight again. Once more, Duran turned away. "Fight!" Meyron ordered. Duran finally...
...their prisoners reason ably well and released five of them, mainly for medical reasons. Said one of the British hostages, Embassy Employee Ronald Morris, 47: "We were on first-name terms, swapping cigarettes and even joking eased." in moments when the tension But on Sunday, the gunmen began to taunt their Iranian hostages by scrawling slogans on the embassy walls: DEATH TO KHOMEINI and DOWN WITH THE NEW SHAH. This particularly enraged the embassy's assistant press attache, Abbas Lavasani, 29, who argued with his captors and defended Khomeini's Islamic revolution. At one point...
...have to wonder and fear where we will be after four more years of the Carter Administration." This sort of taunt, shouted by Senator Edward Kennedy at the Pennsylvania AFL-CIO convention last week, is stirring considerable anxiety in the White House...
...dark blue summer suit, a white shirt, and a tight jaw? Would you believe that Walter Reuther's salary in 1945 was just $7,000 while that of the president of General Motors was $459,000? Did you know that Stokely Carmichael not only spoke Yiddish but liked to taunt Southern Sheriffs with "Kish mir tuchas, baby," and that Ted Gold, one of the Weathermen responsible for firebombing Justice John Murtagh's home in 1970, was actually "shy, almost professorial" by nature? And the historical data is just as painstakingly chronicled: dates, times, and characters are placed just...