Word: pricking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sent in dozens of suggestions for recapturing Goldie: someone urged that he be brought to earth with a tranquilizing dart; another thought up an elaborate scheme to float a balloon filled with anesthetic gas and baited with thin pieces of meat so that the eagle's talons would prick the bubble, causing a knockout drop. Still others saw a profit in Goldie's exploits. Britain's wideawake malted-milk firm rushed out advertisements urging "Give Goldie Horlick's!" One of its biggest oil companies took a half-page ad to declare...
...fact that he appeals to whites as well as Negroes does not make Dr. King a "Tom"; if the "Negro problem" is really the problem of American whites, as many since Myrdal have suggested, someone needs to prick the whites into action. Anyway, if the Negro community is truly worried about its welfare under present leadership, it should be able to throw up new leaders to replace Dr. King...
...gold-rimmed spectacles at the Ulm cathedral. "They have been depersonalized, yet might have died with satisfaction that they helped create something still pulsating 500 years later." His works, dotted with neat cones of oil, are uniformly produced in permutations of the spectrum: a painstaking topography that seems to prick the retina...
...histrionics, neither side could really prick the apparent lack of interest on the part of the electorate in the issues that matter to the parties. For Labor, as Wilson thundered last week, the paramount issue is "the economic crisis which every expert expects to follow this election boom." For the Tories, it is the retention of British control over nuclear weapons-"the ticket to the top table" in world affairs, as Home...
...going to have second thoughts about buying a new car in which they contribute handsomely to auto workers' benefits [Sept. 18]. Such fantastic demands were not made on the auto manufacturers; they were aimed squarely at the car-buying public, and may well be the needle to prick the economic balloon L.B.J. is flying...