Word: prick
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Behind the open-air theater, fireworks prick the sky with pinpoints of light. Onstage a red-coated marching band, followed by men in stovepipe hats and women lofting VOTE signs, winds through a procession of patriotic floats. A Model T Ford chugs in from the wings. Behind the wheel sits a stout woman wearing a stern expression and a name sash that reads GERTRUDE S. Her passenger, sprightly in gray morning stripes, is Virgil T. Neither seems especially surprised when an angel on roller skates whizzes past...
Jean-François Revel, an editor of the French newsweekly L'Express, is a self-proclaimed "man of the left" who likes to prick the balloons of current intellectual fashion. In 1971, when anti-Americanism was a favorite French salon game, Revel audaciously argued in Without Marx or Jesus that the U.S. was the last best hope for genuine world revolution. Now Revel is at it again. At a time when many non-Communist leftists in Europe are getting newly enthusiastic about coalitions with Communist parties, he insists in a new book called The Totalitarian Temptation that there...
...that they cannot afford to ignore it." White mentions that it is more effective to be "courteous, rational, and apolitical" than overtly antagonistic to governments. In pleading a prisoner's case. Amnesty often reminds a country of a constitution that it may be disregarding. "We try to prick their conscience," she says, adding that the embarrassing weight of world opinion usually proves to be Amnesty's most effective weapon in dealing with repressive governments...
...community affairs officer from MIT appeared at the hearing to warn that the schools cannot sustain a full tax burden: "Like Shylock. I say to the people here, prick us and we bleed...
...Like Shylock, I say to the people here, prick us and we bleed," said Milne, warning that the universities cannot sustain the burden of full taxation...