Word: coaxed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...actress of 18, he thought he knew the answer. When his wife objected to what was still, in Biographer Johnson's words, a "technically innocent" relationship, Dickens drove her to a separation while waging an acrimonious publicity duel with her family. But it took Dickens five years to coax Ellen to place "comfort before chastity." Their affair was blotted with self-reproach. Ellen did not really love him, and after Dickens' death she married a clergyman, and said to a friend that she "loathed the very thought of the intimacy" with Dickens...
...Kentucky, the Republican senatorial nominee is John Sherman Cooper, who was elected to a two-year Senate term in 1946. Cooper was defeated in 1948, but ran far ahead of the national ticket. He is certain to coax many independent Democrats over to the Republican column and his presence helps Ike in this normally Democratic state...
...coax this gold out of hiding, Premier Antoine Pinay launched a savings-bond drive. He gave the French a choice between buying his gold-backed bonds or paying increased taxes (TIME, April 21). Last week the bond drive was over, and Pinay pronounced it a "healthy operation." French hoarders turned in 34 tons of gold, valued at $42 million. In all, $557 million came from what the government calls "fresh money," i.e., cash and gold not previously invested in bonds...
...coronation" . . . The pomp and circumstance connected with such an award is not designed to impress cynical and worldly-wise adults, but, rather, is centered on the boy himself. The award of Eagle rank is the highest honor that scouting can bestow . . . Parents may prod, and leaders may coax, but the boy himself must do the work . . . After a formidable array of obstacles has been surmounted, no award ceremony is too great to convince the boy that for one night at least, he is on top of the world. (PvT.) ALAN F. HUGHES Fort...
...planes, routes from Manila over two-thirds of the globe to the Far East, Spain, England and the West Coast of the U.S. Soriano is its unquestioned boss. When the government began meddling last April, he quit; more than 1,500 employees staged mass demonstrations, and the government, to coax him back, had to give him a free hand...