Word: pricking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...public and private, he talks with the same force and verbosity; his speech is quick and idiomatic, and, at the same time, earnest and humorless without a trace of wit or sarcasm. He smiles incessantly, but his laughs are usually reserved for uncomfortable moments at press conferences when reporters prick him with those touchy questions he has no intention of answering...
...plot, a slapdaptation of Actor-Author Robert Shaw's straight-faced novel The Hiding Place, gropes for drollery in the plight of two American airmen (Michael Connors and Robert Redford) who arrive in Germany by parachute and seek refuge in Prick's basement bomb shelter...
...will take a lot of positive feedback to counteract the massive negatives of American race attitudes, but as long as there are Kenneth Clarks around to prod consciences and prick rationalizations, there will be progress...
...Goldwater campaign as if it had been hopeless from the start, but it is tempting to recall that not too many people were willing to say so a year ago, with the memory of San Francisco still fresh and the thought of George Wallace's primary adventures to prick them (and before all those comforting Quayle polls were published). How did Goldwater get all these California Republicans-the same people who vote for Thomas Kuchel in his primaries and for Richard Nixon against Joe Shell-to vote for him? White explains it in terms of Rockefeller's baby arriving...
...turned ugly, on one occasion beat seven injured Pinkerton men to death. Andrew Carnegie, a public friend and private enemy of union labor, scuttied off to Europe before the strike began. Henry Clay Frick, his partner, was left to do all the dirty work-and he did it willingly. Prick's strategy was to break the strongest union in Sam Gompers' infant American Federation of Labor. He succeeded. Not until 1935, with the formation of the C.I.O., did the nation's steelworkers effectively organize again...