Word: spurred
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Negroes made their crisis, but it was no spur-of-the-moment matter. King himself went to Birmingham to conduct workshops in nonviolent techniques. He recruited 200 people who were willing to go to jail for the cause, carefully planned his strategy in ten meetings with local Negro leaders. Then, declaring that Birmingham is the "most thoroughly segregated big city in the U.S.," he announced early in 1963 that he would lead demonstrations there until "Pharaoh lets God's people...
...economy continues to expand in 1964, the nation's factories will have to operate closer and closer to capacity. This will be an additional spur to more spending for expansion, and for the first time in years some economists are beginning to be concerned over hints of a new round of inflation. Wholesale prices have remained remarkably stable for six years, reflecting the lack of inflationary wage pressures and the need to hold down prices to meet foreign competition. But despite a generally good record of price holding in 1963, industry in recent weeks has begun to inch...
...week went on, the mood swung between exhilaration and gloom. Having threatened to torpedo the Common Market, Charles de Gaulle kept up the pressure by telling a visitor: "After all, we could always be a large Switzerland"-a reference to the separate path that France could take. But the spur of a deadline and the ministers' eagerness to get home in time for a peaceful Christmas produced some compromises in Brussels...
...opposition Labor Party under Arthur Calwell, 67, charged that 14 years in power have left the Liberals stale and tired, attacked Menzies for failure to spur economic growth. Hard-pressed by his party's left wing, Calwell, who is personally a strong antiCommunist, nevertheless sought to embarrass Menzies by demanding 1) joint control, rather than exclusive U.S. control, of the huge U.S. Navy Communications Center now abuilding on the barren west coast of Australia, 2) a nuclear-free zone in the Southern Hemisphere and 3) recognition of Red China. That, countered Menzies, "would give Peking a smashing victory." Calwell...
...entries, for example, are all ads: a typical frontpage banner headline in the Hialeah-Miami Springs News-Shopper (distribution: 101,000) reads BRAKE JOB $27.95. And even where the giveaway paper has turned journalistic, its motives often have little to do with professional dedication. In many cases, the spur has been provided by new postal rates that discriminate against junk mail-the classification that fits free-delivery newspapers. By claiming paid circulation, the giveaways that do not depend solely on carrier-boy delivery can escape into the less confiscatory rate for second-class mail. This takes some doing: the Post...