Word: goad
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...preserve the law as a necessity of their community's everyday life. "Desegregation," said School Board Chairman Pro Tem Elmer L. Pettit, "is something that has become law, and we must learn to live with it." Back of the local officials stood Tennessee's Governor Frank Goad Clement, who called out the National Guard last year to enforce integration and the law in Clinton, Tenn., and this year sharply turned down a segregationist delegation that urged him to follow the lead of Arkansas' Orval Faubus...
...down/' Under the goad of this fear, Kim ran herself so ragged while making Jeanne Eagels, and simultaneously preparing for the recently completed Pal Joey, that she landed in the hospital with exhaustion. Says a friend: "Harry Cohn thinks he can make Kim an actress. But it's a terrible strain on Kim. She knows she isn't an actress, but she's ambitious. She cracks up under the pressure...
...VIRGINIA GOAD...
...preferably in coordination with the UN, must be ready to extend economic aid to these peoples. While this will not restore amity between the Arabs and Israel, amelioration of the refugees' lot and improvement of the Egyptian and other Arab nations' living conditions will somewhat remove the powerful economic goad to friction between the Arabs and Israel. Though there will be no love between the two groups, establishing a modus vivendi might eventually lead to Arab recognition of Israel, a peace treaty, and the realization that both nations must cooperate to solve interdependent economic problems of the Middle East...
...Quarles, 62, a good administrator and longtime scientist-executive (Bell Labs), who has managed to keep himself out of the interservice trouble. Another: bald, short (5 ft. 7 in.), terrier-tough Charles S. Thomas, former Assistant Secretary of Defense and, since 1954, the Secretary of the Navy who helped goad conservative Navy thinking toward such innovations as guided-missile ships. Still another: retiring Supreme Allied Commander in Europe and onetime Eisenhower Chief of Staff Albert Maximilian Gruenther...