Word: prodding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...real tragedy of the aid-to-education fight, however, is not the impending defeat of the omnibus bill, but the President's refusal ever to concede it a chance of victory. Faced with a continuing national crisis in education, he has consistently eschewed the one approach which might prod the Congress into doing something about...
...back on his promise to permit elections in the fall, the U.S. warned that it might reduce military and economic aid to Korea. Last week General Park said that he would hold elections after all. Similarly, the U.S. recently used Brazil's need for continued aid installments to prod the government into moving to curb inflation...
...Conant sees it, this would prod states to raise standards while using federal funds without federal control. With out such a plan, Conant foresees "a patchwork series of decisions about spending federal funds, reached by compromises in Congress between pressure groups. That a sensible, nationwide policy can be developed the way we are now going. I question with all the emphasis...
Cambridge police captain Joseph Tierney saw no need, however, for the stepped-up action here. "We've been taking care of the problem right along," he said. "We certainly don't need anyone to prod us on that issue...
Teachers began to move into this leadership vacuum on Oct. 1, the day after the Meredith riot, when some 40 of them volunteered statements to the FBI. They created a committee of nine, chaired by-Classicist William Willis, to prod the administration to action against rioters. From the 60-odd members of the Ole Miss chapter of the American Association of University Professors came a resolution denouncing Mississippi newspapers for distorted riot reports...