Word: coaxed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thorp's committee was concerned only with the know-how part of the program. Elsewhere in Washington, men were trying to figure how best to coax U.S. capital. Some of the proposals...
Perhaps to the board's surprise, the public seemed to find it as much to blame as the unions. Said the New York Daily News: "If the present management can't make a go of the Met we won't coax them to stay . . . if the Met show is to go on, let's bring in some real pros to manage...
Track coach Jaako Mikkola likes Freshman, particularly if they can high jump six feet or run the hundred in ten flat. At the opening winter track meeting this Tuesday evening at 7:30 o'clock in the Varsity Club, he will attempt to coax as many of them as possible into the Crimson fold. All Varsity candidates are invited to be on hand...
...coax her out of retirement, BBC had spread itself handsomely, and tailored a program exactly to the solid (5 ft. 5 in., 130 Ibs.) Fields measure. The twelve-week series is Gracie's first in Britain, though she has starred in three U.S. radio series. The new show is aired three times a week (once live, twice transcribed) to the largest audience BBC can offer. The actual number of listeners is a secret, for BBC believes that publication of such figures "makes for jealousy between the stars...
...chances, and waited for seven years. Last month, McDonald Observatory at Fort Davis, Tex., had a wonderfully "steady" night. Struve trained the 82-inch reflecting telescope on the Companion of Antares. The image of the Companion trembled hardly at all. In a few rare minutes, he was able to coax it separately into a spectrograph and photograph its spectrum under almost ideal conditions without interference from the brilliant red light of nearby Antares...