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Word: coax (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...change her diaper and administer the bottle and coax a belch or two and walk my lonely post, kitchen to dining room to living room and back, singing hymns to her and telling her little things about the 20th century, and sometimes she dozes off, and sometimes she weeps terribly, and nothing I do can reach her and it absolutely breaks my heart. Nothing Puccini ever wrote is so tragic as the inconsolable cry of your own child. I walk, and she screams until she gasps for breath, and I bow my head and weep. I weep. I say, over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: O Baby, Baby | 4/13/1998 | See Source »

...close call with any sense of urgency. Too often, a young umpire will try to make a call before a play has developed, assuming a sequence of action that eventually fails to unfold. The runner may beat the throw, but will he touch the base? The fielder may coax the ball into his mitt, but will it stay there? The ball may beat the runner, but does...

Author: By Jim Cocola, | Title: Why I Ump | 4/6/1998 | See Source »

...learn of Willey's meeting with Clinton until weeks after the fact and that Willey didn't describe it as sexual or upsetting. Willey resisted being deposed in the Jones case for almost six months, and then was so halting and reluctant in her testimony that lawyers had to coax the story from her. So what made her decide to open up for the CBS cameras...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clinton's Crisis: Kiss But Don't Tell | 3/23/1998 | See Source »

...right in the middle of it: I am pleading and ordering and begging a video image of Two Mikes not to fall behind Cousin Kelly and Potential Fire, both of whom are gaining slowly on the outside. I am working with everything I've got to coax my horse to Hold Her Freaking Place for another furlong...

Author: By Dan S. Aibel, | Title: Catching the Fever | 2/24/1998 | See Source »

That drama appeared to end two weeks ago, when a jury convicted Autumn Jackson, 22, the woman who claims to be Cosby's illegitimate daughter, of extortion for trying to coax $40 million out of Dear Old (Maybe) Dad in exchange for her not taking her story to the tabloids. But the soap opera keeps taking new twists. The issue of whether Cosby really is Autumn's father--he denies it, while admitting he had sex with her mother--was ruled irrelevant at the trial. But last week on CNBC's Rivera Live, Cosby attorney Jack Schmitt dropped a bombshell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FROM HERE TO PATERNITY | 8/11/1997 | See Source »

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