Word: goad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kennedy tried unsuccessfully to goad Hubert Humphrey into fighting directly in embattled Oregon and California, and the Vice President accused "some men"-meaning Kennedy-of "exploiting" the nation's problems to advance their own cause. "I do believe," Humphrey said, "there is such a thing as too much ambition...
...psychological impact of his kill-and-maim statement. "There wasn't any shoot-to-kill order," he said lamely. "That was a fabrication." In fact, Daley's tough new order still stood. Whether the "deadly force" he intends to apply in future rioting will serve as a goad or a preventive may well be tested in the summer ahead...
...book's central conceit is its omniscient narrator, a fortyish hipster-nihilist who attempts to goad the characters into shucking their illusions by confronting them with their impotent squeals. Although the narrator ends his tale with the signature "Freddy Lambert," the key to his identity is,.dropped noisily on pase 371, where he is referred to as Xipe Totec, Our Lord of the Flayed Hide. Xipe Totec is the Mexican god of newly planted seed and of penitential torture. Like the maize seed that loses its husk as it begins to sprout, Xipe Totec gave food to mankind...
Having temporized for years, the President finally was forced to act under the goad of unexpected pressure. During the fourth quarter of last year, the deficit soared to the alarming rate of $5.7 billion a year, giving the nation a total deficit for 1967 of between $3.5 and $4 billion, the highest in seven years. By coupling his New Year's Day announcement of those figures with his stern prescription for lopping $3 billion off the deficit in 1968, the President managed to minimize the consequences. Despite the Treasury's subsequent disclosure that the U.S. lost nearly...
...success, in two ways. The Court contends that unless the applicability of the initiative is limited, the city will be flooded with expensive and trivial referenda. Surely, though, it is expensive to collect names and have correct papers drawn. Presumably it takes more than a burst of pique to goad anyone into organizing a referendum...