Word: prods
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Betancourt and Gallegos had been exiles in the days of tyrannical dictator Juan Vicente Gómez. They had returned to Venezuela to help prod President Eleázar López Contreras along the path of measured democracy. For a time they had gotten along with his successor, Medina. But they had broken with Medina when he failed 1) to tackle the nation's economic problems squarely, 2) to change the constitution so that the President could be elected by direct suffrage...
...those who "prod" cannot be quite immune...
Hidden Actors. Chinese and American officers peer through their glasses and telescopes at the forward slopes. They can see nothing. The infantry is deep in the underbrush, bellying its way up over the rocks and ledges. The American officers prod the Chinese general. He assures them that his regiments are moving...
Southerners generally resent any Federal infringement on their State-right to solve their own problems: they have also been prone to leave those problems unsolved. Last week an extraordinary meeting took place in Atlanta, Ga. Its purpose: to prod Southerners into airing some of their dirty linen before the Federal Government steps in and washes it for them...
Donald Nelson, the man who put the prod in production...