Word: goaded
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...committee on student porters returned from five members at the world of brooms and bedspreads, it seemed fair to expect a thorough and valuable report. What finally appeared is nothing of the sort. Instead, it is a catalogs of random observations, useful it at all--only as a goad to simulate the potter program's administrators...
...Shapiro is concerned, Drs. Pei and Yang are taking soundings, trying to goad American scientists into disclosing, if they know, the whereabouts of the fossils. But American scientists obviously do not know. The bones may have been destroyed by ignorant Japanese soldiers, may lie at the bottom of Tientsin harbor or may still be waiting discovery in some godown. There is also a chance that they were pulverized and eaten by Chinese peasants, since ground "dragon's bones" (fossils) have made strong medicine in China for centuries. In one form or another, the remains of Peking man are probably...
Major General Henry Irving Modes (rhymes with goad us), 52, Deputy Chief of Staff, U.S. Eighth Army, once rated one of the Army's top horsemen. After graduating from West Point (1920), he switched from the cavalry to the infantry. A tough, rangy, veteran line commander, he headed the 28th Division's 112th Infantry Combat team in World War II, was wounded in France, won the Silver Star for gallantry in action. Married, has two daughters, and a son at West Point...
Balance of Power. In Hertford, England, running for county alderman, C.E.G.B. Goad cast his ballot for his rival, lost the election by one vote...
Also moved up in the shuffle was Jack Gordon, former boss of the Cadillac division, which had a big hand in G.M.'s tank production during World War II. As a vice president and director, Gordon will assume Goad's previous duties. It looked as if G.M. was building up a strong top team to handle heavy war orders, when & if they come...