Word: prods
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...late his ideas and arrange his knowledge with a coherence which is seldom demanded by the one way techniques of papers and exams. Most of all, it can defeat the gamesman's glib use of words and facts to obscure his lack of real insight or awareness, and thereby prod him into a modicum of honest, and rigorous thinking. There does not appear to be any educational substitute for re-examination of one's assertions in a critical light. Such self-testing is seldom a part of an impersonal grading system, in which even the reader's most perceptive comments...
...draft was meant to fall on all young men equally, not to serve as a stop-gap prod to enlistment. Many young men can today avoid military service. The full needs of the Armed services were met last year with 507,000 draftees and volunteers out of a pool of one million of draft age. The pool will get larger and larger, and those drafted or volunteering will be a smaller proportion than they...
...their digging zeal, the newsmen have performed a worthwhile service. Government administrators have been put on guard; mistakes have not gone long unnoticed. The working press has helped prod the Administration into swift action in some cases, e.g., the resignation of former Secretary of the Air Force Harold Talbott. In that way the correspondents have proved a blessing in disguise to the Republican Administration, though as Sir Winston Churchill remarked, when he applied the phrase to the British Labor victory in 1945, "the disguise is perfect...
Monro also foresaw increased interest in college careers when the secondary schools prod their promising students toward the national recognition of a Merit Scholarship...
...year hard-working George Craig compiled a record of accomplishment, as Legion commanders' records go. He launched the Legion's "Tide for Toys" campaign for shipping toys to children in foreign lands, inaugurated the organization's national "Divine Guidance" program, helped to prod several mental health organizations into forming the National Mental Health Association, and got more than 50 national organizations to join the Legion in an "All American Conference" to fight Communism. Says Craig: "I was in this before it was popular to do it . . . I was fighting Communists long before Bill Jenner thought about...