Word: goad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...existing that could not be substantially improved. "The automakers have voluntarily adopted many safety features, but they have not gone far enough," says National Safety Council Chief Pyle. When Detroit rolls out a truly crashproof car, it will make all other models obsolete and serve as the greatest goad to sales since Henry Ford's model T. It is eminently possible that the makers of the world's most joyous and necessary appliance will be able to slash the casualty rate by three-quarters-and that is well worth setting as a national goal...
...problems of high employment, high growth and high hopes. As the U.S. enters what shapes up as the sixth straight year of expansion, its economic strategists confess rather cheerily that they have just about reached the outer limits of economic knowledge. They have proved that they can prod, goad and inspire a rich and free nation to climb to nearly full employment and unprecedented prosperity. The job of maintaining expansion without inflation will require not only their present skills but new ones as well. Perhaps the U.S. needs another, more modern Keynes to grapple with the growing pains, a specialist...
...things considered but one, Tufts should have its collective head handed to it today. But that one thing is the Crimson's own imp of the perverse that seems to goad the team into winning the big ones and losing the little ones. Yovicsin has that in mind--and so does Tufts.BOBBY LEO (15) weaves between tacklers on a first-half run against Holy Cross. Leo gained 145 yards and scored two touchdowns...
Full of kinks that goad computors to explode...
...from Independence has said the same sort of thing many times before. But either the reporters had not read their newspapers or they wanted to goad...