Word: goad
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...therefore, necessarily "advancing with the times" to glorify a spectator sport by use of girl cheerleaders or any other gimmicks. Nor is it advancing in the University's tradition to goad spectators into cheering instead of booing and cheering as they wish. Re-emphasis of cheerleading will have no bearing on the present difficulties of our basketball team, but it may turn the College toward the reincarnation of "rah-rah" it has so fortunately shunned...
...Angel Herrera, 65, Bishop of Málaga. Bishop Herrera, onetime Madrid newspaperman who was ordained at 53, consecrated bishop at 60, believes, like Cardinal Segura, that Spain should be submissive to the church. But he insists that the proper role of the church is to guide, not goad, the Spanish people. Spain's pressing problems, Bishop Herrera holds, are the poverty of her people and the general backwardness of a clergy which, in the main, knows little and cares less about modern social and political problems. Three years ago, Herrera, with the blessing of the Vatican, started...
...committee on student porters returned from five members at the world of brooms and bedspreads, it seemed fair to expect a thorough and valuable report. What finally appeared is nothing of the sort. Instead, it is a catalogs of random observations, useful it at all--only as a goad to simulate the potter program's administrators...
...Shapiro is concerned, Drs. Pei and Yang are taking soundings, trying to goad American scientists into disclosing, if they know, the whereabouts of the fossils. But American scientists obviously do not know. The bones may have been destroyed by ignorant Japanese soldiers, may lie at the bottom of Tientsin harbor or may still be waiting discovery in some godown. There is also a chance that they were pulverized and eaten by Chinese peasants, since ground "dragon's bones" (fossils) have made strong medicine in China for centuries. In one form or another, the remains of Peking man are probably...
Major General Henry Irving Modes (rhymes with goad us), 52, Deputy Chief of Staff, U.S. Eighth Army, once rated one of the Army's top horsemen. After graduating from West Point (1920), he switched from the cavalry to the infantry. A tough, rangy, veteran line commander, he headed the 28th Division's 112th Infantry Combat team in World War II, was wounded in France, won the Silver Star for gallantry in action. Married, has two daughters, and a son at West Point...