Word: goaded
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From the very first, the Iraqi dictator had loudly proclaimed that an important strategy for winning a war was to strike Israel, probably with missiles releasing clouds of poison gas. The idea was to goad Jerusalem into striking back, thus enabling Saddam to claim that the war now pitted the Arab nation against Israel, its American ally and Arab stooges. His hope was that Egypt and Syria, rather than appear to be fighting in defense of Israel, would pull out of the anti-Iraq coalition or switch sides, and even Saudi Arabia would come under heavy pressure...
...trying to take over a struggling Florida S&L and in 1987 was named in a complaint filed by a rival group. The matter was settled out of court, with no hint of scandal. The Cuomo camp thinks the Republican attacks are in part an election-year attempt to goad the thin-skinned Governor into losing his temper. Says one of the Governor's advisers: "Who's Ed Rollins? Operatives are very good at slinging mud, and you can't win if you engage them...
There he encountered what he remembers as "a quiet current of anti- Semitism" for the first time, another goad for him to excel. At New Trier high school, he began writing for the school newspaper and quickly determined that he had found his life's work -- one that promised glory at least equal to his father's, and on his own terms. "I told my parents," he says, "that I had abandoned their lifelong ambition for me to be a doctor. I was going to be a writer...
...more important than economic dissatisfaction, however, was political anger. Czechoslovakia has Eastern Europe's strongest democratic tradition, and its modern supporters argued that the country was being left behind by new experiments in Poland, Hungary and even East Germany. But if tradition served as a goad to some, it was lack of a historical memory that helped spur on others. The generation of Czechoslovaks now coming of age did not experience the trauma of the invasion -- and the fear of provoking a new crackdown. Said Martin Mejstrik, a leader of the university strike: "Our parents are still frightened...
...half-century ago, waiting for the subcontinental jewel to fall out of the imperial crown. But now Madame has taken on Manek (Navin Chowdhry), a gifted Indian lad, as her prize pupil. She will wage war with his beautiful mother (Shabana Azmi) over his time and loyalty. She will goad Manek to greatness and lose a bit of her heart...