Word: prodded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...final verdict will not be in until the scientists have analyzed their bountiful crop of pictures. Meanwhile, there will be still more unmanned shots at the moon. Man's most intricate machines will peer at the moon from all angles, prod its surface and map its contours with cautious patience before man himself essays that ambitious voyage across space...
...Cannon. Compared with a bull rider, a matador is a preferred risk. At least he has a sword. All Wegner has is a rope-wrapped once around the bull's midsection and twice around his own left palm. Jolted into action by spurs or an electric cattle prod, goaded by a buck inducer (a rope tied around its tender parts), a maddened bull will rear, buck and spin-at the rate of two turns a second. To be a hero, all the cowboy has to do is to stay on the bull's back, gripping with his hand...
...City Council yesterday moved to prod the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA) into disposing of the Bennett St. subway yards. The yards' 12 acres could become the site of the Kennedy Memorial Library or the College's Tenth House...
Although the Committee has spent long hours debating these questions, with a laudable sacrifice of time, the report does not reflect the contours of their thought. The responsibility now lies with the Faculty, both today and in ensuing meetings, to prod the Doty Committee to reveal its reasoning. Only when a boldness of thought and definition replaces a conservative and politic vagueness can energetic debate begin and, more importantly, will students and Faculty alike give their interest and commitment to the program of General Education at Harvard...
Such diversity usually pays off in today's kaleidoscopic economy, but Westinghouse's sales in recent years have been stagnant and its profits falling. Like the dinosaur, the company became too big, too contented and too slow-moving to change with changing conditions. It badly needed a prod-and it got a powerful one in Donald Clemens Burnham, who took over as president 15 months ago after six years as manufacturing vice president. Even Burnham, 49, professes surprise at what he has been able to do. Sales rose 6.2% and profits 30% in this year's first...