Word: prodded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Clifford A. Rand, Jr.: Lowell; House Comm.; WHRB, Adv. Mgr., Dir., Treas., Announcer, Prod.; Fr. soccer; Intramural sports; ROTC cadet capt.; ROTC Council...
...Tommies as well as officers, equal allotments for mistresses and wives), got himself sacked for his brashness by Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, fell into political decline; of a cerebral hemorrhage suffered while he was delivering a speech on Franco-British unity; in Reims, France. Hore-Belisha did much to prod his nation into preparedness, probably will be recalled by most Britons for his term (1934-37) as Minister of Transport, when he installed orange, flickering "Belisha beacons" at crosswalks, got tagged Public Bore No. 7 (Bernard Shaw rated first) by Daily Express readers...
...defiance of superior odds has seized the world's imagination. But in Poland, say all reports, the fires of freedom smolder as hotly as in Hungary. They are kept in check by the way in which Communist Gomulka has achieved a provisional and perilous independence. The stir and prod of the Polish people on Gomulka, and the concessions he must make, are the best chance that Poland will achieve a peaceful transition from puppet state to the Finland model of cautious independence-but independence nonetheless-in the shadow of its big neighbors...
...tons annually, and its known reserves are 225 million tons.) But it also reflects AEC Chairman Lewis Strauss's belief that private industry must be encouraged to increase its participation in atomic-power development rather than letting the job go to public-power plants. One way to prod private business, the AEC feels, is to put out more atomic facts...
...Prod & Nudge. Yet it would be wrong to say that for the people of the satellites there was no future in protest. It is precisely their resistance that makes possible the belief that the whole Soviet regime must in time come tumbling down, destroyed by its own cruelties, repressions, rivalries, indecisions, failures. And should the Soviet empire collapse in this way, the whole world and not just the U.S. could be grateful that it was achieved without the mutual devastation of nuclear war. In the crumbling, many innocent people would be hurt, crushed, killed. Having denied itself the ultimate weapon...