Word: prods
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that the organizers of the Poor People's March on Washington have set up "an agency to process marchers' welfare checks" as they "prod Congress into granting greater aid to the 29,900,000 American poor." At least they will have something to live on while they protest against the Government's lack of concern for them...
...words he is given to say, however, seem in closer accord with der Führer Prinzip than with bluff British pragmatism. Never for a moment is the playgoer unaware that this is a Teutonic Churchill and that Hochhuth is still playing the blame game-not so much to prod the consciences of other men as to slough off on them part of the German burden of guilt for the holocausts of war and genocide...
Bullhorns & Diapers. Abernathy would probably be happy to get so visible a location, since the main purpose of the campaign is to wrench the national conscience and prod Congress into granting greater aid to the 29,900,000 American poor. "We will stay until Congress deals with racial poverty," said Abernathy last week. It will be an expensive stay: merely to feed the demonstrators should cost upwards of $150,000 a day, and Abernathy's procurement list includes items as various as 300 bullhorns, 10,000 disposable diapers and 250,000 nails. Day-care centers for demonstrators' infants...
...sets, starkly colorful in their clarity were all designed by Jim Rayland and should serve as an examplary prod to the creativity of House production designers. The well known Al Symonds did the lighting--I hope one need not say any more because I'm not qualified...
...Scandal. During the past few years, Ipswich has at last been taking over from Shillington as the prod to Updike's imagination, and his short stories have abandoned their boyhood themes and begun to examine the years of his maturity. Like Piet Hanema struggling to accept his God, Updike has suffered doubts...