Word: coax
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...chairman and chief auctioneer, Peter Cecil Wilson, 49. Wilson has sold 28,000 paintings in his career, and last week he went about his work with the same persuasive urbanity that has made Sotheby's the biggest art auction house in the world. Wilson does not joke or coax or subject laggard bidders to reproachful looks. "The cunning of Wilson," says one colleague, "is that there is no cunning...
RADITZER, by Pefer Motthiessen. The title figure of this unusual war novel is a devious sniveler who is an irritation and a danger to the men around him, but who, by a claim based subtly on weakness, is able to coax and goad an exasperated stronger man into protecting him. The ending is powerful, the entire book impressive...
...lightning creates vast numbers of charged particles that cause a cloud's small water droplets to attract one another and swell into drops large enough to fall as rain. If he can learn how to make lightning flash in a growing thunderhead, he may yet learn to coax rain from a cloud that would otherwise soar unproductively overhead...
...Succeed in Business Without Really Trying is a bright musicomedy spoof of corporate wheels and wiles, and its up-from-window-washer hero, Robert Morse, is a superlative comic wonder who could coax laughs out of Mount Rushmore's stone faces...
...Business Without Really Trying (book by Abe Burrows, Jack Weinstock, Willie Gilbert; music and lyrics by Frank Loesser) is a light, bright spoof of corporate wheels and wiles, and its up-from-window-washer hero, Robert Morse, is a superlative, tousle-haired, triple-jointed comic wonder who could coax laughs out of Mt. Rushmore...