Word: prodding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...university which has, at Commencements these last years, honored politicians and international bankers, scientists and poets, journalists, scholars, and headmasters of elite preparatory schools, had not seen fit to honor--not what we use to call in the old parlance "a credit to his race," but the controversial prod to our self-satisfaction, the extraordinary moral teacher of our time, the prophet of living religious faith, the leader of a truly democratic movement of Americans for freedom and for peace...
...anyone seeing the film, her be wilderment and distress seemed achingly real, but the jurors had been carefully instructed not to consider it as direct testimony. Though they could hardly ignore it, they had also to remember that hypnosis is not an infallible prod to the truth. Mulling all of this over, the jury deliberated for two days. "It's a rare case," said Judge Gardner.*Finally, late last week, the jury unanimously returned a verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree. Said Judge Gardner afterward: "My gamble paid off. The verdict has confirmed my faith...
...jawed-and somewhat square-Fred Harris, at 37 the second youngest U.S. Senator (after Ted Kennedy), achieved national prominence as a result of his influential role within the President's Commission on Civil Disorders. Said a commission staffer: "He was a conscience to all of us and a prod to crystallizing a unifying view." That view, reflected in the commission's report, is not universally applauded-as Harris foresaw. To those who were queasy about castigating racism in American society, Harris snapped: "It strikes me that no one in this country is poor because he is white...
...surprising amount of the new critical spirit looks toward the U.S. as the best instrument and prod for government reform (see box). Only a month or so ago, a South Vietnamese who publicly suggested U.S. interference in the government ran the risk of being charged with "licking the American boots." Now the crisis has convinced many Saigon politicians of the need for more, rather than less, U.S. direction and firmness in guiding the government to reform and action...
...fewer newsmen-take the President of the U.S. completely at his word. When he forecast a deficit of only $8 billion for the current fiscal year, few believed that it would be so small. Now that he is predicting a deficit of up to $35 billion, hoping thereby to prod Congress into enacting his 10% tax surcharge, few believe that it will be so large...