Word: prods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year's "Ulster '71" celebration, marking the 50th anniversary of Ireland's partition; 2) to provoke the army into overreacting against Catholic rioters, particularly children, in order to win over Catholic moderates who have been increasingly alienated by the militants' bloody tactics; and 3) to prod the populace into a general uprising that would eventually lead to a united Ireland...
Clearly the American people distrust their leaders and want the war ended. The movement must prod them into action...
...suggested by the work of Psychologist Ivar Lovaas with certain disturbed children who consistently try to mutilate themselves. He noticed that when the children went on a rampage, nurses warmly cuddled them and thus unconsciously rewarded their destructiveness. Instead Lovaas now jolts the kids with an electric cattle prod, often stopping the behavior pattern in hours or minutes. In his book Crime and Personality, Psychologist H.J. Eysenck offers a fascinating discussion of how certain depressant or stimulant drugs can be used to make a patient feel sick whenever he commits a specific antisocial act. "Given the time and resources," adds...
...brisk hand, doubtless sees The Revenger's Tragedy as a cautionary parable for a later age steeped in blood and death and degraded values. The trouble is that rubbing one's nose in a mess is not the best method of cleaning it up. Tourneur tends to prod rather than persuade, and he is too cynical for compassion, too much the devil's advocate to indict devilishness in others...
...most cases, anything "beyond kissing and embracing" if there is no "commitment to marriage." Dirty clothes and messy rooms are inexcusable and represent nothing more than "nose-thumbing" at parents. Daily showers and underarm deodorants are important, as are politeness and "getting chores done before your parents have to prod...