Word: prods
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...million bbl. a Saudi Arabia is also threatening to its production and send oil prices $50 per bbl. Oil Minister Yamani is demanding that world energy companies carrying heavy stocks start them down faster and that West nations stop squirreling more oil away strategic reserves. Indeed, the Saudis prod Western countries to remind them that OPEC price restraint or petroleum production could end at any time...
During 1981, the United Nations' International Year of Disabled Persons, Eareckson's group will expand seminars to prod Americans into doing more to help this neglected minority. Eareckson consciously puts what she calls "the celebrity thing" to good use in this crusade. "Friends who are disabled look on me as a bridge between themselves and the able-bodied population who, for the most part, wouldn't give them the time...
...basis of debate is argument. But this quality was strangely missing in the Reagan-Anderson debates of last month and the Carter-Ford debates of 1976. The problem lies in the fact that we depend on a panel of journalists to prod the candidates into discussion. No journalists should be present at Presidential debates. We should let the candidates tell each other when they are hypocritical, inaccurate or misleading...
...jackknife from his pocket and cut the string. He hated knots, especially when tied with red tape. In his impatience to get things done, he browbeat and literally manhandled associates. Hubert Humphrey recalled having been kicked in the shins affectionately but painfully. The Texas hill-country rancher would prod men as well as cattle. Yet, said Humphrey, "many people looked upon him as a heavyhanded man. That was not really true. He was sort of like a cowboy making love...
Carter's campaign to prod the allies into action began with another television appearance, this one extraordinary by any measure. Acting more like an embattled President going over the heads of a balky Congress to the people of America than a statesman dealing with sovereign allies, Carter personally took the U.S. case directly to the West European public. Interviewed by correspondents from British, French, Italian and West German television networks, he talked bluntly about