Word: prods
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have supplied Europe's oil needs from South America and other foreign properties. But since the depletion of U.S. reserves in the war (the Western Hemisphere supplied 90% of the Allies' needs), the Government has looked sourly on heavy export of oil from the Americas. One other prod to the deal was given by Ibn Saud. As oil and pilgrimages to Mecca are his chief sources of income, he has long awaited increased exploitation of his lands to boost his royalties of 22? a bbl. Shrewd old Ibn Saud also knows that more production means more American capital...
...prod for the many procrastinating Seniors who wait until their last few weeks at the College before recognizing the problem of finding a vocation or finding a wedge into their chosen field, next week the year-old Office of Student Placement will poll the 928 students scheduled to graduate in February and June...
Never before had so many taxpayers seemed so honest. Without even a telephoned prod from an Internal Revenue agent, some 111,000 of them had, since March 15, poured into the Treasury a record $170,000,000 in additional taxes on income which they had not reported. One man who remembered that he had forgotten to report a few items of income dug down voluntarily...
...attack; 2) that Army & Navy commands in Hawaii (headed by Admiral Husband E. Kimmel and Lieut. General Walter Short) were remiss in failing "to effect a state of readiness"; 3) that the Army War Plans Division under Lieut (then Brigadier) General Leonard T. Gerow was lax in failing to prod General Short into greater readiness...
Churchill paid his tribute to the U.S. in a full-flavored Churchillian image: "The American eagle sits on his perch, a large strong bird with formidable beak and claws. . . . Mr. Gromyko is sent every day to prod him with a sharp sickle, now on his beak, now under his wing, now in his tail feathers. All the time the eagle keeps quite still, but it would be a great mistake to suppose that nothing is going on inside the breast of the eagle...