Word: coax
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...suspicion persists that Nixon may have something more specific in mind than merely enhancing his re-election prospects with the trip's inevitable harvest of publicity. One remote chance is that Nixon might try to coax China into joining a multinational conference on easing tensions throughout Southeast Asia, including Laos and Cambodia as well as Viet Nam. That would permit the U.S. to leave Viet Nam with less of an implication that it was forced out, or was deserting any of its Asian allies. However, Hanoi is a block to such an arrangement; it has repeatedly refused to consider...
...critics of the Administration, it seemed that Nixon was missing a chance to end the impasse, since the Communists were at last offering a formula for dealing with the difficult prisoner question. Bruce tried for several weeks to pry more details of the plan out of the Communists and coax them into secret talks...
Actress Greta Garbo has rarely been photographed in the past 30 years. Though Film Director Luchino Visconti has been trying for months to coax her into looking into the cameras as the Queen of Naples in a new film, Garbo has not said yes. On the other hand, she has not said no. Actually, she has said nothing at all-only taken a plane to Nice and tried to dodge a waiting photographer. Unsuccessfully, for a change...
...distinctive, larger-than-life personalities: Terrible Tommy Bolt, the late Champagne Tony Lema, Daiquiri Doug Sanders. None of them, though, ever had Trevino's mix of fun and finesse?or his earthy, egalitarian appeal. A country-club Cantinflas, he will stick his tongue out at an errant shot, coax in a putt with a burlesque-queen bump or break into an impromptu toreador waltz with an attacking bee. Lee's Fleas delight in his wisecracks (Flea: "Nice shot!" Lee: "What did you expect from the U.S. Open champion?ground balls?"). They love his catch phrases ("Black is beautiful, but brown...
...that the U.S. first conspired with South Vietnamese military plotters against President Diem, later backed away from an active role and, in the end, stood by and allowed the coup to take place. In the summer of 1963, officials in Saigon and Washington, D.C., debated whether or not to coax Diem into instituting reforms or to support a military coup. Kennedy and his advisers had come to view Diem and his brother, Secret Police Chief Ngo Dinh Nhu, as corrupt mandarins whose brutal oppression of Buddhists and political opponents was an embarrassment...