Word: prods
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gene is a clever student, and Phineas laughs his way to a C average, but Gene takes no comfort from his crumb of superiority. His friend's perfection galls him. Worse, Phineas has begun to prod Gene to follow him in nonsensical feats of daring. The athlete fearlessly climbs a tall tree by a riverbank, walks the length of a limb, and leaps far out into safe, deep water. Gene queasily repeats the stunt, and bitterly resents the compulsion that makes him do it. Soon Gene comes to suspect that everything Phineas does is calculated to humiliate...
Under the prod of growing foreign competition, the U.S. steel industry set out on its crusade against inflation. The defeat of that crusade, however qualified the defeat may be, thrusts upon...