Word: prods
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When the bus arrived, Dallas County Sheriff Jim Clark leaped aboard, armed with a billy and an electric cattle prod. He jammed the billy in Merritt's belly, and he applied the prod to the photographer's neck. With the aid of a deputy, he threw Merritt off the bus, there prodded him some more as he lay on the ground. All this was caught on film by Merritt's unmolested colleague, Cameraman Ed Jones of the Birmingham News. Merritt's equipment-$800 worth-was smashed with such enthusiasm that the six Negro pupils, who stayed...
...most ingenious use of an old mathematical toy is the endless variety of "cross number puzzles" in the workbooks of Robert W. Wirtz and Morton Botel, which give the child a couple of number clues (here printed in red) and thus prod him to hot pursuit of sums and products (in black) that illuminate the relationship of addition and multiplication...
...Government believes that the industry as a whole is not worried enough about it. Washington has set up several study groups to look into the possible impact of cutbacks on the economy, and the Pentagon has sent Deputy Assistant Defense Secretary Arthur Barber barnstorming the nation to prod management. Said Barber to a group of defense industry executives in Boston last week: "What you have got to face is that the markets you're in are going to diminish, and that you've got to create new products...
...compound near the lumberyards of old Stamboul, across the Golden Horn from modern Istanbul. There, Athenagoras rises at 7 for prayer, spends most of his days keeping up with a vast worldwide correspondence and seeing visitors, to whom he offers a tidbit of sickly sweet Turkish jam. Eager to prod Orthodoxy into a dialogue with other churches, Athenagoras looked forward to his meeting with the Pope. "The ice has been broken," said Athenagoras. "Soon a new era will begin in the history of Christendom...
Roccamena's protest attracted major attention when it was joined by Danilo Dolci, a famed crusader and author who has staged five previous hunger strikes to prod the government into doing more to alleviate Sicily's poverty. Dolci's announcement that he would fast for ten days rallied support from leading Italian intellectuals, would-be intellectuals and influential admirers all over the world. After Dolci had gone nine days without food in a flyblown little room off the Piazza Matrice, the town square, a Christian Democrat bigwig from Palermo announced to the crowds that the government would...