Word: goad
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...smashing defeat ?I don't know where he can go from here." The whip's job may not cut all that keenly with many voters, especially those who have no high regard for the Senate. A few Senators even thought that the affront just might goad Kennedy into saying "to hell with them" and running away. Assuming that Kennedy, as he repeatedly proclaimed, had no intention of jumping into the 1972 race, the defeat was not a total gain for Nixon. Byrd may be more philosophically attuned to some Nixon programs, but he takes his partisan role seriously...
...gesturing frantically from the bench. At a breakfast meeting with some 15 newsmen last week, one important Nixon aide let it be known that as many as three Cabinet officers will soon be pulled out for good. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, a Democrat who has served as a liberal goad to Nixon-notably on the welfare reform bill, one of the Administration's few major domestic proposals-will be dispatched to New York to replace Charles Yost as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations...
Second Thoughts. Gaddafi might goad the triumvirate into trouble. He has already ordered 110 French Mirage jetsand intimated that they might be turned over to Egypt. The French, who included a clause forbidding third-party use of the planes, are consequently beginning to drop hints of nondelivery. The Soviets, however, have already provided MIGs for Sudan and may well move in if the French renege...
...shone round about him; and falling to the ground, he heard a voice saying to him, "Saul, Saul, why dost thou persecute me?" And he said, "Who art thou, Lord?" And he said, "I am Jesus, whom thou art persecuting. It is hard for thee to kick against the goad." And he, trembling and amazed, said, "Lord, what wilt thou have me to do?" And the Lord said to him, "Arise and go into the city and it will be told thee what thou must do." Now the men who journeyed with him stood speechless, hearing indeed the voice...
...steadily bitter, the result not of hopelessness but of insufficient hope. It is the third accent, of course, that is the most deeply disturbing. Black militancy continues to enrage whites, but i has also had the effect of reducing white guilt feelings While guilt is useful as a social goad, the result of this reduction could be a slightly healthier atmosphere. In many communities, the situation seems somewhat closer to an argument or a bargaining session between equals. It is not too fanciful to see blacks turning into a conservative force some day, just as the blue-collar workers have...