Word: goad
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...Century dictionary I read as follows, "Gadfly. The popular name of sundry flies which goad or sting domestic animals. They are comparatively large, very active, voracious and bloodthirsty, with great powers of biting, the mouth parts being highly developed. They also have great powers of flight. The bite is deep and painful, often drawing blood, though not poisonous. In strictness, only the females are gadflies, the males being smaller and quite inoffensive, living on the juices of plants. There are more than a thousand species...
...cuadrilla there are positions to be won. First, that of the picador who, dressed in chain-mail up to the waist, has but to goad the bull with a sharpened lance, keeping his horse's blind-folded eye toward the beast until it charges, gores the horse, and gives the picador time to be dragged over the arena's paling...
...York City to interview a publisher. Unfortunately he arrives in the city on the very day on which the Prince, whom he resembles, is expected. He is taken for the Prince and the ensuing action arises from his mistaken identity. Mary, the heroine, serves to goad Peter on through his bad luck. Complications arise when her second suitor, Jake, who is a traveling salesman, arrives on the scene of action. This role is built around the sleight-of-hand ability of A. H. Stafford '26, who will play it, and his magic will provide much of the excitement...
...cups--has called forth competitive activities noless rigorous than those induced in the greater world by the hope of pecuniary profit. The establishment of prizes, such as the Pulitzer and Carnegie awards whose significance is largely honorary, is a step toward substituting a more altruistic spur for the traditional goad of gain in the common walks of life. When the "man on the street" will strive as cagerly for such prizes as the student does for his major letter--or the graduate for his scholarship--the schemes of Bellamy and Wells may begin to be practicable...
...proposed tax undoubtedly would result in the casting of more ballots. So would the application of a perfected goad get bigger droves of cattle from the stockyards across to the slaughter houses. In both cases the physical herding is accomplished and very little else. What is the good of a tax to swell the totals already far too big, of a vote cast in part or total ignorance of issues, candidates and policies...