Word: goad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...problems which have arisen in the last few years to goad the Dean's Office into drawing up new rules for undergraduate organizations, Radcliffe girls and their relation to student groups at Harvard are by far the most pressing...
...Army had the word straight from an old West Point superintendent now in Tokyo. Messaged General Douglas Mac-Arthur: "There is no substitute for victory." If West Point's tough, all-conquering football squad needed any further goad last week, it was supplied by pre-game gibes from the Navy cheering section. With President Harry Truman and 102,442 others watching in Philadelphia's Municipal Stadium, Annapolis banners flaunted some sore subjects...
...confided to another trouper, "I'm going to the top in this business. Mama says so." By the time he was 31, Mom had traveled more than 100,000 miles with him around the Big Wheels and in the nightclubs as business manager, cook, claque, straight woman, goad and inspiration...
...went as the lawyers, collecting $2,275 a week from the C.P. in fees, worked to goad the judge into making a prejudicial error; it would be handy on appeal. Medina occasionally reddened with wrath as they darted in at him: Isserman with his soft bay; Gladstein with his air of righteous plausibility turning to outraged innocence when the judge caught him laying a legal trap; Harry Sacher, the little man with the bull voice, chivying the Court, then smiling impishly, eyes cast down, while the judge mildly upbraided him; Dennis rushing in occasionally to make a choked, impassioned speech...
Ultimate Discoveries. No longer driven by the goad of poor gentility, Millionaire Shaw is as ready as any tycoon to bemoan the woes of being wealthy. In his conversations with Neighbor Winsten, the Shavian past & present unroll like an endless, multicolored ribbon...