Word: goads
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...himself, Joseph Stalin, while spending billions for hydro-electric power and such, still refuses to buy the thousands of new locomotives, tens of thousands of cars and millions of rails which Russia desperately needs. Instead, the Dictator's policy is to menace Russian railway men with firing squads, goad them to achievements of despair in making antique rolling stock roll on. Goader-in-Chief is the Dictator's dear friend Lazar Kaganovich. About this time last year Comrade Kaganovich thundered, "The railways of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics must and shall load 68,000 cars every...
Some charges we can ignore, others goad us into angry replies and still others call forth reasoned explanations. All three reactions presented themselves to us when we read Federal Relief Administrator Harry L. Hopkins' attack yesterday against the colleges that turned down Federal "subsidization" of students, an attack that was a virtual accusation of snobbery. The University authorities have chosen the first answer, silence; a few days ago we presented what seemed to us to be Yale's theory on the matter; now, stung a little by this most unpleasant of charges, we are tempted...
...Daily Trojan's strange accusations and Coach Jones's comments were part of a deep plan to goad his players into an effective rage, they failed miserably last week. At Pittsburgh a crowd of 50,000 saw Pitt get revenge for two defeats in Rose Bowl games by bottling up Southern California's towheaded little Quarterback Irvine Warburton, capitalizing Southern California's misplays. Score of Southern California's second beating in a row this year...
Vast issues these were; unfortunately, vast enough to goad the Rhode Island State Legislature into the game. Sniffing that old devil communism, the vigilants empowered their speaker to appoint the time honored investigating committee. With the old Brown facility for going one better, a grieved alumnus beseeched the Federal District Attorney to do his bit as Torquemada also. But the Herald, nothing daunted, rejoined in brave tones that theirs was "the higher patriotism...
...only tickled by the goad...