Word: prods
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...juridical tortoise sometimes tried to prod the hare awake. It hinted that Congress might liberalize some of its laws. It would not stand in the way of legislation leading toward the welfare state...
...agenda, and approved an impressive armistice preamble in which they agreed to stop fighting, and to respect each other's territory. Then they settled down to tackle the prickly questions of armistice frontiers, withdrawals and reduction of their armies in the Negeb desert. To give the Egyptians a prod, the Israelis announced that they were already holding armistice talks with the Lebanese, and were giving up control of Lebanese villages across the border...
President Truman, who thinks the U.S. steel industry has not expanded fast enough to meet the nation's needs, last week gave it a sharp prod. In his "State of the Union" message (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), he asked Congress for an "immediate study" to find out if existing steel capacity is adequate. If it is not, said the President, then the Government should lend industry the money to expand or, if steelmen balk at that, put up the plants itself...
With the ceremony not even so formal as wrapped old wheeze in a discarded galley prod and throwing it on the Lampoon's steps, the CRIMSON on September 21, 1947, scrapped the Radcliffe jape...
...FEPC, a law protecting the right to vote, laws guaranteeing equality of treatment in education, health and public service. In the nature of things political, many of these recommendations would remain pious hopes. But the committee's report provided a sharp and much-needed prod to the nation's conscience...