Word: coaxed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...later as privates if the 3-As are tapped. Of the million men of 1-A caliber now on the lists as dependent-deferred, about 150,000 are eligible for officer training. The Army needs 75,000 new officers this year for ground forces alone, has good reason to coax worthy 3-As into its ranks...
This democratic spirit is one of the greatest strengths of the German forces. A young captain who has risen from the ranks knows from experience how his men feel, what they can do, and what their limits of endurance are. He can coax the last ounce of energy out of his unit at the moment of crisis. In the modern style of mechanized warfare carried on by small detachments, an officer's close contact with his men is of more importance than ever...
Surrendering the city to avoid bombing, the small Greek garrison and most of the population moved inland to the hills to think things over. While the Italians were still trying to coax them out with ultimatums, the German occupation force of three arrived by motor launch, bowed politely out when they found the small end of the Axis in possession. Next day the Greeks capitulated finally and the Italians made sure of their prize with three infantry battalions...
...Spanish colony, newsmen found conditions only a degree better than a concentration camp: 120 people without adequate tools, medical supplies, clothing or food trying courageously to coax a living from 20 arid acres, four milkless cows, a few pigs and chickens. A political fight has frozen the funds supposed to support the colony, which sinks deeper in debt every time it buys the meagre rations of coffee, rice and beans it lives on. Only bright spot was the morale and spirit of the colonists themselves who, ridden with anemia and malaria, work desperately hard, hold classes for natives...
...buyer of Paris high-style merchandise. But "Skap's" stand made him see red. His wife Sophie had recently completed showing her own custom-made midseason collection, without any help from Paris, was full of excitement about fine textiles and exclusive gewgaws that she had been able to coax out of hitherto mass-production-minded U. S. manufacturers. Said Mr. Gimbel: "The Paris of the old days is not the Paris under totalitarian government. Schiaparelli is either misguided-or under the influence of the Vichy Government...