Word: goaded
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...shuffling of their ranks. Executive Vice President Marvin E. Coyle, who started with G.M. as a secretary 39 years ago, will retire Jan. 1. Into Coyle's shoes as head of body fabrication, car assembly and accessory production will step short, dark and chunky Louis Cliff Goad, 49. It looked as if Goad was becoming the No. 3 man in the world's biggest manufacturing corporation. Ranking him will be President Charles E. Wilson and Harlow H. Curtice, the top executive vice president of the corporation and heir to Wilson's job when he retires...
...University of Illinois engineering graduate, Goad was hired by Charlie Wilson for G.M.'s Delco-Remy (electrical) division, worked up to boss of Fisher Body and Buick-Oldsmobile-Pontiac assembly plants. During World War II he headed G.M.'s Eastern Aircraft Division, whose plants at Linden and Trenton, N.J. were the only U.S. auto factories to convert to the production of complete airplanes (Grumman fighters and torpedo bombers...
...Europe is Germany. The key to Germany is Berlin, and not since the Russian blockade of 1948-49 has the outpost city seemed more menaced by the Red domain that surrounded it. Under the Kremlin's goad, East Germany is arming fast in the name of a united (i.e., Communist) Deutschland...
...movie does an effective job of conveying the helplessness of its hero against unreasoning hatred, the hypersensitive suspicion of some of his fellow Negroes, and the poverty, ignorance and insecurity that goad their tormentors. A well-written exchange between the hospital's chief doctor (Stephen McNally) and its administrative head (Stanley Ridges) shows pointedly how social expediency can hobble the best intentions of intelligent men in decisions involving Negroes. Standouts in an excellent cast: the likable Poitier, a savagely villainous Widmark, and Broadway's Mildred Joanne Smith who, as the hero's wife, gives the movie some...
Jimmy and five of his pals went to Indian Mounds Park and tiptoed up to the cave. Ray was nowhere in sight, but smoke was curling out of the cave's chimney. Boldly, the boys dropped some snow down the chimney to make the fire smoke and goad Ray into showing his face. When he did, Jimmy Lewis and his men took one good look...