Word: goaded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...intensely admires in peace no less than in war, made clear that he proposed to be the head of the opposition to Churchill. With Englishmen saddened by their own defeats and praying for Red victories, Sir Stafford had a beautiful tactical position. Whether he would be merely a useful goad to spur Britain on, or whether he represented the coming Socialist revolution, remained to be seen. And there would be no more vitally interested spectators than the Sons and Daughters of the American Revolution...
...always satisfied his superiors, often was the butt of his contemporaries. They used to goad him at mess by suggesting that an enemy bullet was not something to be grateful for. This would enrage Bock and he would make his usual harangue, until his fellows all said together: "Ah, the holy fire of Küstrin...
Aches and bruises were everywhere evident, the natural end products at an afternoon spent backing the Navy goad, but Harlow feels that his squad will be in good enough condition to held a scrimmage sometime this week probably Wednesday. Last week, after the pounding handed them by Dartmouth the Variety did not scrimmage at all and did not reach push form until Friday but with the exception of 162-pound Don Forte who found himself opposite the Midshipmen's mountainous Gene Freshman, the general condition of the squad is considered improved over last week...
...seemed that the fears which seized many Laborites when the Churchill Coalition Government came into being last year had been fully realized -in the old British fashion the Conservatives had stifled the opposition of the Laborites by absorbing them; the Laborite leaders had become an echo rather than a goad to Winston Churchill...