Word: goad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tennessee's onetime (1953-59) Boy Governor Frank Goad Clement, who rocketed to national attention as the 1956 Democratic Convention's "How long, oh how long, America?" keynoter and afterward faded into a Nashville law practice, announced that he will run again for Governor. Said Clement, now 41: "I am ten years older than when I first ran for Governor and I hope ten years more mature." With meager opposition and no run-off Democratic primary (as in most other Southern states), Clement probably will...
...week discipline was beginning to slip. Excited by the daytime fasting required by the month-long celebration of Ramadan, infuriated by bombings and indiscriminate killing, the Moslems were beginning to strike back with mass violence of their own. That is precisely the aim of the S.A.O., which hopes to goad the Moslems into a full-scale racial war; in that event the S.A.O. feels confident that the French army will side with the Europeans. The terrorists also hope to show the world that French troops and police no longer control the cities of Algiers and Oran, thus any agreement with...
Despite massive discontent, the Congress Party has never really had a goad in the Lok Sabha. Disgruntled elements within Congress are loath to leave the sheltering paternalism of the party, which benevolently permits them the fruits of patronage and influence peddling. The only coherent opposition has been the Communist Party, whose influence is greater than its 30 seats in Parliament suggest. Nowadays the Communists generally support the Congress Party's left-wing candidates, including Menon, oppose only the right-wingers. Nehru has occasionally swatted the Communists for "having their thoughts outside India," but is less hard on them than...
RADITZER, by Pefer Motthiessen. The title figure of this unusual war novel is a devious sniveler who is an irritation and a danger to the men around him, but who, by a claim based subtly on weakness, is able to coax and goad an exasperated stronger man into protecting him. The ending is powerful, the entire book impressive...
...beginning of last summer and has dominated the news since.") But at its current price of ten cents, Tocsin's forum will never reach beyond a very select minority. All undergraduate pamphleteers would do well to remember that they are writing for a relatively well-informed audience. Goading the masses is not a proper Tocsin function, though urging concerned Harvard students to goad them may well...