Word: goad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tragedy is that the Arabs' humiliation over their failure to catch up has been projected into hatred of dynamic Israel and all the "Western" attitudes it represents. In the Arab case, self-contempt has not been a goad to positive achievement, as it sometimes can be, but rather to self-destruction. Today it is often forgotten that Nasser's 1952 revolution began as the most promising event in modern Arab history. Here was a completely secular government devoid of Islamic hobbles, one that stopped barefoot wretches from sleeping in the Cairo streets and moved them into high-rise...
...second and most attenuated of the playlets takes place in the basement showroom of a bedding store, and proves only that Eros is the god of youth and the goad of middle...
Either one of the Harrington Commission's 1962 proposals would provide fairly drawn districts. Perhaps the threat of further Federal Court action will goad the Governor and General Court into re-examining them...
Charged with attempted escape from Western Penitentiary, Convicts Richard Mayberry, Dominic Codispodi and Herbert Langnes set out to goad Judge Fiok into declaring a mistrial. They demanded the right to defend themselves; and once they got it, they proceeded to act like crazy lawyers and harass Judge Fiok all the more...
...seriousness. Gone is the breezy irreverence that the staff used to associate with "Miss P," who delighted in twitting Long Island's moneyed aristocracy and even her own advertisers. Advertisers are no more likely to push the Captain around, but neither is he likely to let his editors goad an advertiser into canceling a contract. Though he directs operations with imaginative skill, he is not especially at home in the newsroom, and keeps his distance from his shirtsleeve staff...