Word: coax
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nice guy, but Joe somehow didn't seem to fit in. As the party went along (I guess we'd call it the party of the third part by then seeing it was getting on in the evening), so did Joe. It got so bad that we had to coax him off the Ibis where he had been dropping martinis on people and passing cars below. Not that there was anything wrong about dropping things from the Ibis, but these were the particularly good martinis that Bill Matterhorn had made while in England...
Running through all the MacArthur hearing testimony was one official Administration explanation for the Yalta concessions to Russia. The justification was military: the U.S. had to coax Russia into the war against Japan, and at the earliest hour, to reduce what were expected to be large U.S. casualties in assaulting the Japanese islands...
...kimono) and drink tea while gazing quietly at the lotus pond. He has been suspicious of the geishas' morals, but he learns that they are respectable girls whose only job is to sing, dance and listen to people's troubles, shake their heads sympathetically and coax the customers into good spirits...
Harvey (Universal-International), as playgoers learned in 1944, is an invisible rabbit well over six feet tall, the boon companion of a gentle, friendly lush named Elwood P. Dowd. The movie adapters of Mary Chase's Pulitzer Prize comedy have blessedly resisted the temptation to coax Harvey into full view.* Up to a point, they have even managed to recapture some of the Broadway production's daffy charm and prankish fun, and they have kept all of Josephine (Arsenic and Old Lace) Hull as its fluttery leading lady...
...waved that 'Nobody likes a one-book author' slogan around like an old Excelsior banner. When I finished my second book she changed it to 'Nobody likes a two-book author.' Then three . . ." Betty's attempt to lay another golden Egg is sure to coax thousands of readers into the bookshops, only to learn that Betty is cackling over an empty nest...