Word: prods
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...difficulty goes deeper than language. I want facts, facts to be set down with finality in my notebook. I prod the colonel: How many people have gone home? How much weaker are the Huks? How can he tell? He looks more & more harassed; suddenly he grins with a certain ferocity, and jabs his lean, dark hand at me and at each of the small group of officers who surround...
...Council wants to avoid electing its members under a non-existent constitution, it had better prod its sub-committee into some quick and intelligent action. The committee has a chance to work the Council into an organization which can do far more good than recent Councils; if the revision group makes up for wasted time, the new constitution can head off much of the criticism that has currently been dropping around the Council...
...message suggested that Hungary's Communist government is God's judgment on the church for "worldliness." Western Lutherans, the Hungarians noted, should quit trying to prod their Hungarian brethren into more sturdy opposition to the Communists. "They might consider if it is of any use for the Hungarian Church of Jesus Christ to give . . . expression to statements which are frequently based on wrong information and . . . are appropriate for aggravating our position . . ." Though the church is grateful for all the financial and material aid that has come from overseas, they cannot accept any conditions along with...
Some of Levine's latest paintings gave indication that he was losing a little of his early bile. Cartoons in oil like Reception in Miami and Welcome Home, a prod at Army brass, came a little less frequently. "I may have been angry or bitter but I don't stay that way," explained Levine...
With the Government asking the questions, husky, big-jawed Manning R. Johnson made an effective prosecution witness in the perjury trial of Labor Leader Harry Bridges. But when the defense began to prod him last week, Ex-Communist Johnson made an even better...