Word: goad
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...best thing that happened to me was to get to coach the women's cross-country team. It gave me the chance to run my own show. I urge, goad and encourage the girls and they put out the effort to win," Hunt concluded...
...race and Yankee Manager Billy Martin tossed in his bed, looking for ways to get even with his boss. For a moment, still thinking like the street fighter he used to be, he had a drastic idea. He would walk right up to Owner George Steinbrenner, insult him and goad the boss into striking him. Too wild, he decided. If only Steinbrenner would stop sending those foolish statistics down to the dugout during the game, stop pushing him so hard to discipline the players. Discipline, Martin thought as he lay awake, actually longing for a physical confrontation. That...
Those of us who have been poor know what nonsense it is to believe that having little makes one a thief. Creating reasonable motives for unreasonable people only serves to goad them...
...already a person." Through a capable campaign staff, she is setting up a detailed district-targeting system for a get-out-the-vote effort where she is strongest. Rivals hope she will wound herself by playing the brash tartar; Congressman Koch and Manhattan Borough President Percy Sutton try to goad her with cracks about self-discipline and lack of administrative ability. So far she has left the bait dangling...
...Davis affair has given us one lesson. Accusations about the strictly racial implications of Davis's statements, whether wrong or right, carry little weight with many of the people who embrace his consideration of standards of excellence. If anything, such attacks will only goad people into Davis's camp, possible through sympathy for the scholar's rights of academic freedom...