Word: prods
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...concerned. "It looked like the comments of the President of Russia were largely for domestic consumption," White House Spokesman Robert Gibbs told reporters on Tuesday. Analysts, in fact, believe that, far from picking a fight with NATO, Medvedev was using the western alliance as a weapon to prod his own military into much needed reform. (See Russia celebrating its military might, Soviet-style...
...Monday morning, hundreds of Israelis milled around the Shalits' protest tent, hoping to meet the captive soldier's father, Noam, a shy, earnest man who swallows his revulsion at the media circus in hopes that it will prod outgoing Prime Minister Ehud Olmert into agreeing to a prisoner swap with Hamas' Islamic militants so that his son will be freed. (See how Hamas is becoming harder to ignore...
...accident. So there ain’t much of the service I can hear.”Was that silence I heard? I whirled around as I tossed him a “Well, Happy Easter!” and scurried back to the sanctuary. I gave a tiny prod to the left door. But only to hear a new deacon blathering on about Fellowship Stew.I turned back to the foyer as I looked down at my hymnal. To come out here to get what I should have already had! And then to be kept from going back...
...could chew. Indeed, it soon came under immense pressure as the global financial crisis slammed headlong into the German car industry and orders dried up almost overnight. By the end of 2008, the once proud matriarch was seen in tears on German television, leading employees in a demonstration to prod the government to bail out her hapless clan and save thousands of jobs. But given the Schaeffler Group's "greed is good" image, it was no surprise that Chancellor Angela Merkel said nein...
...instead of waiting around for the government's finger-in-the-air results, Time decided to poke and prod the banks...