Word: prod
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Chinese have shrewdly made use of the Soviet overtures to prod the U.S. to cancel its decision to sell arms to Taiwan. The day of Brezhnev's speech, a Peking magazine published remarks by Party Vice Chairman Deng Xiaoping, again cautioning the U.S. that there was no room for compromise. If Washington did not reverse its decision to supply Taiwan with weapons, Deng said, "let the relations [between the U.S. and China] retrogress. So be it." Administration policymakers cannot count on Chinese mistrust of the Soviet Union alone to ensure harmonious Sino-American relations...
...course, few remember Kelley as a strategist any way. His strength was his ability to motivate a team with stirring pre-game talks and then prod them to victory from his perch behind the bench...
...Saudis also agreed to renew their efforts to end the ongoing war between Iran and Iraq, and the Saudis offered to try to mediate Syria's long-standing differences with Iraq and Jordan. The result of this sustained bit of fence mending was to strengthen Assad, to prod the Saudis toward a slightly more militant foreign policy, and to suggest that the Middle East equation was changing enough to bring some divided Arab nations a bit closer together...
That's all right. It means I'm a Prod. But if I had said hatch, I'd have been a Taig." She laughs mockingly. "Still, most of the time it's not the children who are the bigots. It's the parents." She adds that she feels a lot closer to Catholics in Belfast than she does to Protestants in England: "You see, we have shared an experience here?a life...
...ways. Teen-age girls in Belfast adore the romantic novels of Joan Lingard, especially Across the Barricades ("when Catholic Kevin and Protestant Sadie are old enough for their hitherto un acknowledged attraction to flower into love"). It is not wishful thinking, exactly; Bernadette admits she would never date a Prod, because "nothing could come of it." But the possibility exists, nonetheless?a fact that infuriates the gunmen at the doors...