Word: prods
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kremlin speech, Old Soldier Khrushchev did a little Orwell-style rewriting of history. "On the eve of World War II, the so-called Western democracies conducted a double-faced policy," he cried. "They sought to prod Nazi Germany against our country . . . It was the perfidious policy of the ruling circles of Britain and France that impelled us to conclude a nonaggression pact with Germany in August...
Soon surprised housewives found themselves listening to civic officials solemnly discussing city problems-and many picked up their telephones to prod the politicians. They became fascinated by doctors' explaining hypnosis in childbirth, psychiatrists detailing environmental and hereditary factors in mental illness. Local Announcer John McCormick soothed them by purring Robert Burns's Despondency and Christopher Marlowe's The Passionate Shepherd to His Love...
...same basic idea of waiting had been alternately proposed and rejected by both sides before Goldberg arrived. He won agreement by arranging for the Mitchell Commission to consider the tugboat dispute separately and promising that the federal, state and city governments would prod labor and management alike to heed the commission proposals. Clearly, the Goldberg settlement marked a victory in politics and public relations for the Kennedy Administration and set it on a course apart from the Eisenhower Administration in labor policy...
...become a substantive issue. The simplest and most lurid reason for advocating such a program is the frightening challenge with which the Soviet Union presents us in this field. As Averell Harriman has observed, however, the United States has an obligation to promulgate social advance without waiting for a prod from Moscow...
...carried away with their own cleverness with words. Reston seems to be blind to the real progress that has been made in recent years. He doesn't seem to have a perspective of history. If, like Socrates, he's merely posing as a gadfly to prod us into doing better, that's O.K., but in his eagerness to defame he can do a lot of harm...