Word: goad
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...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...
Thoroughly revitalized, Filmore rejoices in an existence where "nothing is demanded of him but that he give himself to the currents of commands and orders emanating from Goad...
...prison make has some fine moments of upside-down humor. When his rollicking stay behind bars is ended by an untimely parole, Filmore promptly holds up a Salvation Army Mission and steals the collection box in order to speed his return to dear old Audton-and (misspelled?) Goad...