"I was steps away from getting married," he explained earnestly when prodded about his experience.
Because of the international prodding, about two billion new people received clean drinking water over the subsequent 14 years.
But he's already wealthy: "I am a banker," he replies, with a rare smile, when prodded about his religion.
Ever since they found their groove on SNL, they've been quizzed and prodded about the one thing that interests them the least – their gender.
But when prodded about whether the hiring of Ms. Couric had, in effect, been doomed from the start, considering what already ailed CBS, Mr. Wallace demurred.
Val had talked about Fred Harper (the boys doing the Oxbridge entrance called him Fred) as if he were a portal to higher things, yet here he was chaffing and prodding about work like any other teacher.
When prodded about the possibility that some teams in the young N.B.A. did not want a Japanese-American player so soon after World War II, he has maintained that his demotion had more to do with his modest size.
I am dialing with one hand, while the other prods about his face and shoulders searching for the spot on the neck where the artery (vein?) runs close enough to the surface to feel a pulse, and I can't tell if I'm inept or if blood is simply not moving.
Sven Eckerstein, Volvo Car Corp.'s deputy chief executive officer, rolls his eyes when he's prodded about his company being an acquisition target.
When prodded about her love life, Longoria simply responded, "I'm happy".
