Word: coax
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prints. Faded colors suddenly leaped to life; obscured details became plain; disjointed lines and phrases connected up. No contemporary could match his subtlety of nuance-the exquisite tenderness, the sweetness, the purity; nor could anyone equal his passion and force. Somehow, when the score demanded it, he seemed to coax a bigger volume of sound from a given number of instruments; he could also reduce the same number to a greater degree of stillness...
...hopeful about human efforts to change the weather. He admits that cloud seeding with dry ice or silver iodide particles can coax rain out of a susceptible cloud, but he is not convinced that it can be done often enough to be valuable. Rossby believes that better long-range forecasting would probably be more valuable than attainable extra rain. A long-range forecast of a disastrous drought (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), such as the one that is affecting much of the U.S. at present, could prevent much suffering...
...flashed a swordlike power that is already legend. In one of the repertory's most strenuous roles-Prima Donna Lilli Lehmann called Norma tougher than all three Briinnhildes-the Callas voice rose from her slender frame with dazzling endurance. No doubt, other great operatic sopranos can coax out of their ample, placid figures tones that esthetes call more beautiful. But just as the greatest beauties among women do not usually have flawlessly symmetrical features, the greatest voices are not characterized by a flawless marble perfection. Callas' voice and stage presence add up to more than beauty-namely...
Republican hopes for electing two Senators from traditionally Democratic Kentucky shone brightly during the time G.O.P. leaders thought they could coax popular ex-Senator John Sherman Cooper, now Ambassador to India, back into partisan politics to run for Barkley's seat. But they dimmed when Cooper, in Massachusetts General Hospital at Boston for minor throat surgery, decided against running last week because his job in India "is only partly accomplished." Cooper's decision not only forced the Republicans to dig up another candidate; it weakened the G.O.P. ticket and hence the chances of Earle Clements' November opponent...
...grudging reply, however, was already too late. Even though Egypt will probably accept the State Department's offer, it is t best a stopgap measure--a piece of undeserved candy with which to coax a precocious Egypt back into the Western fold. Russia has won a diplomatic victory by forcing the U.S., as the saying goes, either to "put up or shut up" over the Egyptian dam project...