Word: prodded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Central America and to bring about the stirrings of democracy in Nicaragua is through military, diplomatic, and economic pressure on the Sandinista regime--while still honoring the Arias Plan. This does not demand a continuation of the contra war, but a recognition that some military pressure exist to prod the Sandinistas into opening up their political system. While it is naive to expect the Sandinistas to agree to a coalition government including the rebels, it is certainly not unjustified to let the Nicaraguan people decide on its government in regular and free elections...
Chopping the air with his hands and jutting out his lower lip, Gorbachev charged that all journalists wanted to do was grill him on human rights, "as if we are agreeing to give interviews not just to try to search for the truth, to prod each other to serious thinking, but to drive the politician into a corner." He then instructed the reporters, like a scolding schoolmaster, to "think over this part of my talk." The outburst, like his brusque answers to most of the questions that followed, revealed that glasnost has definite limits...
...group pressure, exhaustion and the desperate need to have five minutes alone. Travel with any of the current contenders in a van in Iowa and New Hampshire, and you are certain to encounter half a dozen reporters working on psycho-profiles. Tape recorders at the ready, they push and prod the candidate for his formative experiences: Was your father cruel, did your mother feed you gruel, were you popular in school, did you break the Golden Rule...
Both James Baker and Howard Baker prod Reagan in a series of White House meetings to work toward a market-calming budget compromise. They prep him for his critical 8 p.m. press conference. The President is advised to walk a delicate line: exude confidence about the economy without sounding like Herbert Hoover...
...Despite widespread support for the accord in Central America and the Congress, the White House was handing out a different message: that the leftist Sandinista government of Nicaragua could not be trusted to observe the accord and that continued pressure by the U.S.-backed contra rebels is needed to prod the Sandinistas toward genuine reform. In a speech before the United Nations General Assembly last week, President Reagan warned that until Nicaragua achieves a "real, free, pluralistic, constitutional democracy . . . we will press for true democracy by supporting those fighting...