Word: coax
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...carpenter for Habitat for Humanity, for example, and in his less publicized crusades against the devastating diseases of guinea worm and river blindness in the Third World. Operating out of the Carter Center in Atlanta, he has used his commanding moral authority to mediate disputes and monitor elections and coax transitions to democracy in Panama, Nicaragua, Haiti, Zambia, the Dominican Republic, Bosnia and other countries...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...