Word: prods
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From New York City Col. Arthur Woods was summoned to take "a kind of coordinating job" as head of the President's Emergency Committee on Employment, to prod local relief agencies and issue cheery reports. The public buildings program was pressed harder. Announced the President: "As a nation we must prevent hunger and cold to our citizens who are in honest difficulties...
Judgment. Inquisitor Seabury awaited the judgment anxiously. If the high court upheld the decisions of the lower courts, he would be provided with a potent stick to prod from the city's political jungle a host of important facts hitherto lurking behind Immunity. If the decision were reversed, Reform would be rendered almost impotent. Each time it wanted to make a reluctant witness talk it would have to promise him a pardon from the Governor. Even then, the witness would not have to accept the pardon...
...Fleamen say they can tell a flea's possibilities for the stage by the way it holds its six legs. A flea which always grasps one leg with another will make a ball balancer. One which waves its legs back and forth rapidly makes a chariot racer. Trainers prod the insects with tiny whips when they make mistakes, force them to repeat their tricks. An obdurate flea which refuses to move is prodded into activity, worked harder than the rest. The human flea lives mostly in Europe. Professor Heckler says he obtains his supply from the boat stewards...
When the Senate refused to work on Saturday, President Hoover went to his Rapidan camp for the weekend, took Senators Allen of Kansas and Vandenberg of Michigan, "Young Guardsmen" supporting the Treaty, along with him to discuss the Senate situation. They urged him to prod the Senate forward by making a public appeal. They complained that Republican Senate Leader Watson was not leading as a good leader should, admitted that the slim Senate quorum might collapse altogether if Senator Watson tried to press the opposition too hard. They speculated to the President on applying cloture to the Senate debate, ordering...
Sorry for Reporter Lingle though they were, Chicagoans last week waited to see whether his would be a really fruitful martyrdom; whether, its heart touched, its majesty outraged, its power challenged, the Press of Chicago would lead or prod the leaderless city out of its uncivilized predicament...