Word: coax
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...inaugural address, he left no doubt about his allegiances. Said he: "I live in the bosom of the armed forces, and to them I give my gratitude." Such effusive fealty may have brought him to the Casa Rosada, but the prime test of his presidency will be how to coax his army patrons into accepting free elections...
...everybody has been happy with the Boston Marathon. Olympic Gold Medal Winner Frank Shorter has run at Boston only twice, the last time in 1979. Among other reasons, he could never coax so much as a plane ticket out of Cloney. Sneaker companies have probably picked up a few tabs over the years in Boston, but the runners have never been paid or even had expenses defrayed by the B.A.A...
...finer things of life, only stupid topics like the price of yellowfish. He flailed and hooted like a child while watching soccer games, and when she hauled him to the theater for some cultural uplift, he laughed when he should have cried. One day Yu tried to coax him into reading a book. He snapped: "I've been selected a model worker every year without reading books and newspapers!" That did it. She rushed to the nearest court and filed for divorce. After much publicity and a judge's stern lecture on socialist morality, Yu won her case...
Unable to coax their male friends out of a Kirkland House room, three Wellesley women resorted to pulling a fire alarm in I-entry of Kirkland at 5:30 yesterday morning, bringing House residents into the courtyard...
...WORLD). The French and the Italians have taken the hardest line, with the West Germans dismayingly cautious and the British somewhere in between. Haig is convinced that Carter was wrong when he tried to bully the allies into supporting his sanctions in 1980, and he has gently tried to coax them into conformity with the U.S. position-with no success so far. Said Haig: "I am optimistic that if the U.S. is patient and shows good sense, the Europeans will come to share our concern, and we can march together...