Word: goading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ionospheric explorations above the Antarctic icecap to elaborate schemes for landing electronic-guided tanks on the moon. It sponsors as many as 100 field expeditions at a time, one of which last year discovered in Siberia what may be the largest diamond field in the world. It is the goad, guide and guardian of Russia's most impressive national effort...
...Guide & the Goad. To Lyndon Johnson, common sense has a special meaning. Says he: "One of the wisest things my daddy ever told me was that 'so-and-so is a damned smart man, but the fool's got no sense.' " By sense, Johnson means the art of knowing what is possible and how to accomplish it. He does not waste time on lost causes. He realizes that hot issues are rarely settled by victory for the extremists on either side. Always willing to give a little in return for a lot, Johnson is the Senate...
...Johnson's sense is his guide, his sensitivity is his goad. It spurs him to vanity: his LBJ brand appears everywhere, on his shirts, his handkerchiefs, his personal jewelry, in his wife's initials, his daughters' initials (Lynda Bird Johnson, 13, and Lucy Baines Johnson, 10), even in the initials of his beagle pet (Little Beagle Johnson). Lyndon Johnson would rather be caught dead than in a suit costing less than $200. Indeed, when he suffered his far-from-mild 1955 heart attack, the question arose about whether to cancel orders he had put in with...
ROSALIND ELIAS, 25, a dark-eyed mezzo-soprano, is slender enough to play the boy Cherubino in The Marriage of Figaro, provocative enough to goad her stage lovers convincingly to swordplay, as she did as Olga in Eugene Onegin. A Lebanese-American born in Lowell, Mass., she began singing the Metropolitan's smallest roles four years ago, rose to starring parts through a combination of good looks (she is the Met's youngest, prettiest leading singer) and a warm, full-timbered voice. Her latest success: Erika in Samuel Barber's Vanessa (TIME, Jan. 27). Although a good...
...grave and grievous mistake," said Florida's Governor LeRoy Collins. ''Precipitous and unfortunate," added North Carolina's Governor Luther Hodges. "I am the governor of a state where I don't intend for federal troops to ever march," throbbed Tennessee's Governor Frank Goad Clement, tears welling out of his eyes. "Law and order in Tennessee will be preserved for Tennesseans. Is a bayonet going to be the bookmark of Southern education...