Word: prods
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...movie billboards, sent his spotters ("often bums who came to me looking for a job") into the old burlesque houses. His ringing voice assailed vice at hearings held by the New York City Commissioner of Licenses as well as from the pulpit of his red brick church. He helped prod New York's Mayor Fiorello La Guardia into closing down the strip joints and driving their operators out of town. For his campaign against "coddlers" of crime, he won plaudits from FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover. His activities brought fame to his church (which sometimes attracted as many...
...vowed to fast through his 20-day sentence and pledged that "Resurrection Cities will spring up all over the country." One did, briefly, in Olympia, Wash., on a corner of the state capitol grounds. "Resurrection City II" (three Indian tepees and four tents) and its counterparts may continue to prod the nation's conscience-and occasionally test its patience...
...judiciary. In the case of Elbert Parr Tuttle, the description applies dramatically. For six years, Tuttle was chief judge of the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, which deals with such "Heart of Dixie" states as Mississippi and Alabama; under him that court has been a vital prod to civil rights...
...early to tell whether Kennedy's career, his campaign, and the impulses he stimulated will have an immediate effect on American political life. On the national level, where his urgent voice and prod will be most sorely missed, the prognosis is tragically dim. Almost as depressing, the nation has been cut off from perhaps its most educational sport--watching and listening to the noisest, most enterprising U.S. Senator since George Norris...
...headquarters of the Poor People's Campaign-the last project launched by the late Martin Luther King Jr-the shantytown is designed to prod Congress into taking action on behalf of the nearly 30 million poor Americans. To ensure that Congress gets the message, the poor will stage a series of demonstrations climaxed by a Memorial Day march that is expected to draw more than 150,000 participants. What worries official Washington-as well as the tourists who are staying away in droves-is that the "demos" may get out of hand, turning Resurrection City into Insurrection City...