Word: coaxed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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United to Survive. Adenauer's Mercedes 300 rapidly crisscrossed the state from Bonn to Miinster; night after night he exhorted political meetings, drawing comfortably large crowds. His message: "Europe can survive only if we unite . . . Soviets seek to dominate us. They try to coax us with trade. Well, an American Congressman has suggested that anyone who wants to go to Russia and promises not to return should be given a free ticket [laughter]. Russia wants our resources and industries. She won't give up until she realizes that Europe is unified and strong force is facing her. Only...
Most optical instruments use lenses, mirrors or prisms to coax rays of light. This system works all right for microscopes and telescopes but not for the long, flexible probes (gastroscopes and broncho-scopes) that physicians use for peering into human stomachs and lungs. To permit the peerer to see around irregular curves, the instruments have to be packed with many small lenses, which absorb a lot of the light. Unless the field of vision is very small, the image is badly distorted before it reaches the eyepiece...
...boards while heading Johns Hopkins. Soon he will reverse the roles, remaining a trustee of the university. His forte, demonstrated both at Hopkins and as president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science: a great ability to harmonize the scattered chords of specialized research, and to coax specialized researchers to play together like an orchestra...
...been sent to Congress, the Eisenhower Administration had grown steadily more nervous over the violence of the opposition to the proposed $5 billion cut in Air Force appropriations. Major General "Jerry" Persons, the President's liaison man with Capitol Hill, had put in long hours trying to coax dissatisfied Congressmen back into line. Dwight Eisenhower himself had thrown the weight of his military prestige behind the air-power cut in a nationwide radio speech. Last week, fighting to stave off the possibility that Congress might decide to rewrite the budget, the Administration seized on the notion of using public...
...early days, such a hit as Glow Worm might sell two or three million copies of sheet music for them. After it was launched in vaudeville or a Broadway show, its principal salesman was a fast-talking song plugger whose job it was to visit bandleaders and coax or coerce a performance out of them. If he could get a song on Kate Smith's radio program he had done a good week's work. His pitch might run from "Please play this song-if only to ease the pain of my ulcers" to "What prizefight or show...