Word: prods
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...water. He infuriated Conservatives, Communists and Labor alike. When Sir Stafford spoke coldly of the sacred precincts of Buckingham Palace, the London Times condemned his "indefatigable exercise of an irresponsible tongue." When he and other leftists in the Labor Party formed the Socialist League (designed to prod Labor into more radical action) he drew down the fury of the whole press...
From the German legation a stream of gold has found its way to rebellious border tribes. From German radio stations comes a daily prod at old battle sores, a yammering about high food prices in Kabul, British bumbles, the shortage of wartime supplies. The Afghan government is promised "the lost provinces of the Indus" in the event of-Axis victory...
...Selective Service is waging a psychological offensive designed to tease and prod men into the Army...
...ritual is said to include wrestling matches (from which they often emerge in tatters) and critical bull sessions in which members tell each other their faults, prod each other to strive for Success. Main room in the tomb is reputed to have a marble altar and an illuminated skull...
...This is a sore spot that had better be left untouched," snarled vitriolic Editor Virginio Gayda last week in Rome's semiofficial Giornale d'ltalia. The sore spot was on the Italian economic body, but ignoring Italian wincings, Great Britain proceeded to prod it. Despite an Italian protest "in firmest language," 13 Italian colliers bound for home with 100,000 tons of German coal had been stopped, after due warning that the shipments must cease, by British warships as they sailed from Rotterdam. They had been escorted through the Channel mine fields to The Downs, there to await...