Word: coax
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...exasperated grocer claims it took him a year to collect a $50 debt from the Congolese embassy, and a Bonn moving company has been trying for three years to collect the balance of a $1,100 bill from the Saudi Arabians. When a landlord in nearby Remagen could not coax the rent from his South Korean tenants, he went to the Foreign Office and asked that the debt be covered by development aid money earmarked for Korea. The request was refused, but Foreign Office officials began worrying that deadbeat diplomacy might arouse enough adverse public opinion to damage their...
...Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.: "The president of the Hasty Pudding Club." » Hitler: "Incongruities ran up and down the man. Hitler's massive brow ridge was strikingly out of proportion to the sunken upper jaw which the little mustache was inadequate to coax out. His nose was crudely hacked out, unfinished, a vulgar proboscis...
...same considerations that drew its competitors to fertilizer companies. Ammonia from crude oil is a key ingredient in fertilizers, and Spencer has been buying a lot of it from Gulf. U.S. fertilizer sales have been growing 10% a year, as farmers pour on more of it to coax higher output from their Government-limited acreage allotments. Meanwhile, the oilmen have been itching to diversify because gasoline wars have hit prices (last week in the Midwest they were down another penny per gallon to 10.75? wholesale...
When Gen. Maxwell Taylor, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, announced last week that the Joint Chiefs do not oppose ratifications, a favorable vote was assured. Opponents still hope to coax a disapproving phrase or two out of some testifying officer, but many senators who were withholding any committment until the military had expressed its assent are now free to speak, and are beginning to do so. These announcements will elevate further the stature of military advice and consent...
...effort to reexamine Gen Ed with any general views of a cultural ideal. The major problem in General Education is administrative, not philosophical: it is to strengthen the bargaining power of the College in its dealings with the departments, or at the very least to enable the College to coax from the departments a new pledge of loyalty. For it is still an open question whether a four-year college "experience" makes any sense.JOHN H. FINLEY, JR., co-author of the Redbook and a member of the Doty Committee, has the longest record of service in General Education. As Chairman...