Word: goad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lawyer Abraham Isserman tried the goad. "When your honor interrupted me to misconstrue-" he began, but that was as far as Lawyer Isserman got. Said Medina in a level voice: "That is an impertinent statement ... If you keep this up ... there will be a day of reckoning. Perhaps this is an effort to wear me out.* That is not the proper conduct of an attorney. It may wind up by breaking me down, though I hope it doesn't. I tell you now-stop it! . . .If you persist you must take the consequences...
...attempt to goad the Houses into studying College food, the Council restated its month-old motion on House food committees and directed House representatives on the Council to get the program started
...Vice President Louis Clifford Goad, 47, Fisher Body boss, moved up to head the new body-and-fabricating division, which will coordinate the activities of Fisher Body and the "B.O.P." (Buick-Oldsmobile-Pontiac) assembly plants...
...Cronin, 43, Fisher Body manufacturing manager, was made a vice president and moved up to take Goad's place...
William Waldorf Astor's lowdown on his mother, Lady Astor: "Mother likes to insult people and goad them, but if she finds they pay no attention or simply don't get angry, she stops...