Word: prodding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...debauchery is going to a music hall to applaud the Crazy Gang. The film makers warn at the end that "there may be a spy in this very theater, in the very row where you're sitting." Such drab middle-class doings as this film shows may well prod enemy agents into a more exciting line of work...
...number of picketers (and arrests) proved small, the spirit of protest seemed omnipresent. The opening ceremonies alone escaped. When President Johnson spoke at the Federal Pavilion, voices (most of them belonging to white teenagers) interrupted his speech with barely comprehensible cries of "freedom, freedom." James Farmer, cattle-prod in hand, was arrested at the Louisiana exhibit, and protesters forced the Missouri display to close...
...most effective prod would be a simple reminder of last year's contest, when the lightly regarded Crusaders fought the Crimson tooth and nail for four full periods before bowing...
...acted without filing formal charges or consulting his trustees, as prescribed by the university's own statutes. While not siding with Biologist Koch's views, A.A.U.P. decided that he had a right to express them and had been fired without a fair hearing. Censure was imposed to prod Illinois into strengthening its guarantees of due process. How would Henry handle Revilo P. Oliver...
Compromise. The debate stems from the U.S. Trade Expansion Act, passed under President Kennedy, which per mits the U.S. to bargain for sharply lower tariffs on whole families of prod ucts instead of negotiating by item. As a result, the Western industrial powers planned the impending round of tariff negotiations, and whatever cuts they agree upon will be extended to all 58 members of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT...