Word: prods
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Undoubtedly, the spur to action can be valuable. It can prod us out of scientific complacency and give rise to a more adequate defense apparatus. But there is a greater significance to the challenge. The nation, as some already realize, must reappraise its sources of strength, must base its confidence on firm, not illusory ground, and must reconstruct its policies and tactics on this new foundation. America is still technologically the leader; her people live more luxuriously than any people in history. And the promise for the future is not eclipsed by Russia's satellites in space...
...Donchaseeit," another frequent rallying cry, is used to prod laggards. "It's next to O'Ryan," one shouts. "It's at Sirius, the dog," exclaims another...
Humane societies objected not only to a lion tamer's use of a chair to prod a bored lion, but to the TV appearance of rabbits who looked vaguely unhappy. A civilian patriot thought that spoofs of barracks life on Phil Silvers' You'll Never Get Rich were tearing down the fabric of the armed forces. When a character in a drama announced that he would forgo his M.D. ambitions and settle for becoming a chiropractor, howls arose from chiropractors. Securities dealers and the New York Stock Exchange itself kick at the sight of a shady stockbroker...
...Harvard and elsewhere) committee's report on a nominee for a permanent appointment. But the original nomination still rests with the departments, with the ad hoc committee advising the President on his decision at a later date. The President and after him, the governing boards, should be encouraged to prod the departments into looking around for new blood even if it makes their own boil...
Newspapers are quick to pry and prod on almost any subject-except newspapers. Hoping to remedy the "voicelessness of the press about its own business" and its "almost psychopathic" sensitivity to criticism, the New England Society of Newspaper Editors began last week to publish an outspoken new magazine, the American Editor. Said Carl E. Lindstrom, executive editor of the Hartford Times, who is the society's president and editor of the new quarterly: "This journal is dedicated to self-examination rather than selfcriticism, but we shall not be afraid to study critically any of our habits...