Word: goad
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...swift-paced, hard, quickly finished. Yet Higgins' plot exposes character, which deteriorates, producing plot, which further defines character. This describes the intent and achievement, not of a formula thriller, even one that is well written, but of a conventional novel. Of course, one does not want to goad a man who writes well about thugs to write badly about something else. Higgins' most obvious strength, moreover, is a traditional one for crime novelists. His dialogue is brilliant. "All the time, I'm thinking. How do I get out of this? How'd I get into...
...Communists plan to keep the Premier on the defensive. Presumably, they will try to goad Tanaka into disastrous faux pas. Presumably also they will needle him about his yeasty private business and personal interests; he has made questionable land deals and one Tokyo newspaper, the Mainichi Daily News, charged that some of those deals involved a former Tokyo geisha named Kazuko Tsuji, who is alleged to have been Tanaka's mistress and the mother of two of his children...
...walk away from him?" Jack Roosevelt Robinson was puzzled. "Mr. Rickey," he said, "are you looking for a Negro who is afraid to fight back?" "On the contrary," said Rickey, "I'm looking for a ballplayer with guts enough not to fight back. They'll taunt you, goad you. Anything to make you fight. Anything to bring about a race riot in the ballpark. If they succeed, they'll be able to prove that having a Negro in baseball doesn't work...
...office revealed that he knew about Dean Kilbridge's ultimatum. Leonard suggestion was I should sue the University which was confirmed by a telephone call to me from James Sharaf, attorney in the office of the General Counsel of the University. The purpose of this harassment evidently is to goad me to sue the University in order to delay the implementation of the HEW findings by protracted litigation. All this, of course, has been done before in many civil rights cases. Unfortunately. The Crimson seems to be unaware of the implications...
...legislate. This has been a problem in the U.S. for years, with the nation wearily viewing the discouraging spectacle of two Houses of 500 willful politicians bartering to arrive at laws that are supposed to be best for the country. It seems to take a national emergency to goad Congress into sustained action; the last legislatures to produce anything like a spate of successful laws were the first New Deal Congress (1933) and the post-J.F.K. (1964-65) Congress...