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Word: goaded (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Journey of the Corpse, the hero spends years of his life earning a huge ransom demanded by barbarians for a captured fellow townsman. He deserts his wife and child and starves himself to raise the money. Not until the ransom was paid did the benefactor meet the goad to his sense of sacrifice, a man who had once done him a casual favor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Different Cup of Tea | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Frederic G. Donner, 56, and President John F. Gordon, 59, moved longtime (eight years) Executive Vice President Louis Clifford Goad, 58. In charge of G.M.'s automotive, body and assembly, and parts divisions since 1951, Cliff Goad has jurisdiction over all of G.M.'s general-staff activities: distribution, engineering, manufacturing, personnel, public relations, research and styling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONNEL: No. 3 Man at G.M. | 9/14/1959 | See Source »

Taking over Goad's old duties will be Sherrod E. Skinner, 62, who was elected an executive vice president. Skinner has been vice president of G.M.'s accessory group since 1951. Also promoted to executive vice president was Cyrus R. Osborn, 62, vice president of the engine group since 1950. In his new post, Osborn will boss G.M.'s engine divisions, the household appliance and electro-motive groups, and the overseas and Canadian units...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONNEL: No. 3 Man at G.M. | 9/14/1959 | See Source »

...curriculum prescribed by the nation's Ministry of Education, including instruction in the Greek Orthodox religion. But the school is not an austere learning factory, as most Greek academies are. President Davis has spread the six-year Greek secondary-school program through seven years, has planned courses to goad students to independent thought, promoted an unheard-of give and take in classrooms. Davis will leave the school and Successor Rice with an encouraging financial boost; fortnight ago the Ford Foundation announced that it would give Athens College $250,000 for scholarships and salaries of Americans who will teach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: New Man for Athens | 4/27/1959 | See Source »

...weddings, wakes and funerals, Smith says. "I get a good idea of who's in the mob and whom they're dealing with, and what's new." Other reporters, possibly in envy, suggest that this kind of intimate coverage can only goad gangland into throwing something more substantial than Joey Glimco's cud. But big (6 ft., 210 Ibs.), confident Sandy Smith has built no barricade around his Woodstock home, where he lives with his wife and four children. "If you cover the mob," he says, "you expect to get cursed and spat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Covering the Mob | 4/20/1959 | See Source »

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