Word: goading
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Spain turned toward democracy following Franco's death in 1975, the terrorists calculated that their acts would goad the military into a right-wing coup, thereby buttressing ETA'S claim that peaceful reform was impossible. The number of terrorist killings rose dramatically. And, indeed, on Feb. 23, rebellious members of the Spanish Guardia Civil took over the country's parliament and held it for 18 hours. The insurgents were backed by high-ranking army officers and had the support of shadowy right-wing financiers. The main demand of the rebels: more freedom to combat Basque terrorism...
...made him look goad." Harvard's Paul scheper said after Dartmouth's diminutive lefty, Jim Croteau, threw a onehitter at the Crimson in the first game of Saturday's doubleheader at Hanover...
...most efficiently, but when slavery was no longer available, something else evidently had to take its place. In his autobiography, Black Boy (1945), Richard Wright tells a story of himself as a teen-ager working in an optical factory in Memphis. Some local white men tried repeatedly to goad Wright and Harrison, another black boy who worked for a rival company, into a fight by telling each that the other hated...
Backers like the Citizens for Limited Taxation consider a proposal as bald-faced as Proposition 2 1/2 (Question 2 on the ballot) just about the only way to goad a legislature that has so long resisted change. If cities threaten a total loss of municipal services or bankruptcy, the state would have to step in, they argue. No matter how many city officials decry the plan, however, there is no guarantee the state will come up with a new, progressive tax system. The legislature would have to act on Proposition 2 1/2 before it could become law, and it could...
...Saudis were especially worried lest a resumption of American shipments goad...