Word: goad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year. They know, from their interest and application, how they are going to do on an exam even before they enter. And they are correct. When one Strives and succeeds, the competitive excitement of examinations is very pleasant; when one Strives and does poorly, it is a merciless goad to improve...
...last concert in Cambridge to match this one in quality of intent and execution was given last spring; the program of music by Pierre Boulez. Like that one, this was sponsored by the Department of Music, one suspects, gratefully, under the goad of Leon Kirchner. There is no telling what will happen to musicologists if they leave the door open to superior applied music--the kind one can actually hear. But on the basis of Monday's more than welcome concert, one can assure the Department there is a mob at the door waiting to listen. Concerts such as Monday...
...Celtics have not forgotten Bob Cousy-although they would like to. The memory serves mostly as a goad. "He's an opponent now," says one Celtic, "a kind of shadow that we're playing against." Says Russell: "Nothing much has changed. Now, when we take the ball out of bounds, we give it to Jones. In the past, we gave it to Cousy. That's the only difference...
With that as a goad, the Common Market's farm chief, Sicco Mansholt, 55, a Socialist dairy farmer and The Netherlands' former chief of agriculture, fortnight ago proposed a bold plan to equalize the Six's grain prices by next July. By Mansholt's reckoning, the French would have to raise their grain prices by 8% to 15%, while the Germans would have to slash theirs by 11% to 15%. Last week the distressed Germans pleaded for time to weigh this shocker-Chancellor Ludwig Erhard will discuss it during visits this month to De Gaulle...
...Switch. Determined to goad President Kennedy into using federal troops to enforce integration, Wallace sent state troopers to try to close down schools in Birmingham, Mobile, Huntsville and Tuskegee. The Administration refrained from rising to Wallace's bait, but based its refusal to send in troops on a fairly legalistic argument: as long as the schools remained closed altogether, there was, technically, no discrimination against Negroes...