Word: goading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Davis affair has given us one lesson. Accusations about the strictly racial implications of Davis's statements, whether wrong or right, carry little weight with many of the people who embrace his consideration of standards of excellence. If anything, such attacks will only goad people into Davis's camp, possible through sympathy for the scholar's rights of academic freedom...
...naming his own vice-presidential choice early, Reagan hoped to goad Ford into doing the same. Ford told TIME that there is "a possibility" he will reveal his decision before the convention. Much of the speculation centered on former Texas Governor John Connally. Connally, long stubbornly neutral in the Ford-Reagan battle, flew off to Washington the day Reagan announced his choice of Schweiker. Reagan, he had long ago concluded, was an intellectual and political lightweight who had now made a bad miscalculation...
Gerald Ford is playing the jolly Santa Claus, like any other incumbent who wishes to stay in office for some more presidential Christmases. As shrewdly and crudely as Lyndon Johnson or Richard Nixon ever did, he is doling out patronage and pork to goad, frighten and lead Republicans to support...
...Moynihan had secretly hoped to goad the Secretary into taking public action against him, Kissinger disappointed him. Although in other circumstances any Secretary of State might well have felt justified in asking for Moynihan's head, Kissinger said soothingly. "Moynihan is doing an outstanding job at the United Nations, and he has the full support of the President, the Secretary of State and the Department of State." Kissinger later endorsed Moynihan's outspoken views by saying that the U.S. would regard the U.N. votes of other countries on issues of importance to the U.S. as signs...
...government to accept its long-term responsibility. They have in effect asked that Tokyo not only approach Moscow through diplomatic channels, but also pay for transporting the refugees back to South Korea. The case goes to trial next month in Tokyo, and the lawyers hope that they may finally goad the government into taking action. "Only when our government accepts the responsibility of shipping these people back home can it once again begin talking about human rights," says Hiroshi Izumi, one of the 18 representing the Korean refugees...