Word: prodding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Yugoslavia, Kennan is trying to prod an ideologically hostile country toward genuine neutrality; in Japan. Ed Reischauer has the opposite task: he must keep an essentially friendly country from moving toward neutrality-or worse. Neutralism, Reischauer believes, is a more potent threat in Japan than Washington realizes. Though the ruling Liberal-Democratic Party has a safe two-thirds majority in the Diet, it commands only about 60% of the popular vote. If this margin swings to the solidly neutralist opposition, the U.S.-Japanese alliance would almost certainly be scrapped, and, argues Reischauer, "neutralism, if not open pro-Communism, would...
...evaluation" for the new house system, the Radcliffe SGA has the obligation to open up discussion on all fronts. For the first time in many years a real challenge faces the student leaders. If they want to establish a respected and effective student government, they will have to prod the apathetic into thought and action...
...street, but bow before the realities. They assign no homework because it is an impossibility in filthy, noisy tenements. They teach no foreign languages in junior high school because half of their pupils hardly know English-they read at sixth-grade level or below. Their immediate task is to prod sleeping children who have been kept awake all night by battling parents. And they struggle steadily to keep their charges from quitting school, to keep them from joining the unemployed floaters on the street...
Harvard pictured itself in 1959 as a glorious leader, showing other, less powerful, less enlightened schools the way out of the wilderness of federal control. President Pusey testified several times in Washington as part of a massive effort on the part of the enlightened schools to prod Congress into repealing the disclaimer affidavit provision. Last summer was supposed to be the climax of the great crusade, but nothing happened. President Kennedy, once a strong foe of the affidavit, evidently had more pressing concerns on his mind and had forgotten. Congress never gave the matter a second thought as it renewed...
...tamales with their Dior dressed wives. Track police sported Stetsons and packed six-guns, consciously copying the deputy marshals who ruled the tiny (pop. 2,500) town in the bad old days when Billy the Kid roamed the nearby Sacramento Mountains. The race that put Ruidoso Downs on the prod was last week's running of the 400-yd., $202,425 All-American Futurity-Kentucky Derby of quarterhorse racing and, dollar for distance, the richest horse race in the world...