Word: proddings
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...those not willing to sign a check on the spot. Koscot recruiters have a maximum prod: a free flight to company headquarters in one of Turner's nine planes. On arrival they are fed, feted and shown a film of Turner's life story punctuated with shots of tropical beaches and expensive cars. After all that, there are few holdouts...
...seeming violation of psychobiography, of delving into an historical soul, pales beside the violation of misapplied psychology of a biographer. The growing number of superb psychobiographies should prod the biographer to redefine his role. Dr. Cody has gotten hold of what small sureness can be secured from Emily's life...
Maoism was always grounded more in a naive spiritualism than in psychological or even political theory. Though the Communist rule of China proceeded conventionally enough in the beginning, by the mid-1950s Mao decided that the great necessity was not to institutionalize socialism but to institutionalize revolution. To prod the country's historically passive masses into a ceaseless struggle for the new world, writes University of Michigan Political Scientist Richard Solomon, Mao made virtues of hostility and aggression, the two human characteristics most deeply suppressed by the Confucian ethic. "The more one hates the old society," Mao reasoned...
...months ago), or was carried to the scene aboard a bigger craft. An unmarked trawler was in the area at the time of the attack. In any case, the guerrillas appeared to be trying to sow trouble among nonradical Arabs. The reference to Aqaba might have been meant to prod Israel into some sort of reprisal against Jordan's only seaport as a way of injuring King Hussein...
...SURE, many of the aims of this movement-especially among clerics-are oriented toward the Church itself. On one level, there is growing pressure for liturgical reform which would reflect present-day realities, and on another, there are concerted efforts to prod the Catholic hierarchy into positions of support for the antiwar movement and civil rights. And much of these activists' radical zeal has been a direct result of their own experience within the Church...