Word: coaxed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...finer things of life, only stupid topics like the price of yellowfish. He flailed and hooted like a child while watching soccer games, and when she hauled him to the theater for some cultural uplift, he laughed when he should have cried. One day Yu tried to coax him into reading a book. He snapped: "I've been selected a model worker every year without reading books and newspapers!" That did it. She rushed to the nearest court and filed for divorce. After much publicity and a judge's stern lecture on socialist morality, Yu won her case...
Unable to coax their male friends out of a Kirkland House room, three Wellesley women resorted to pulling a fire alarm in I-entry of Kirkland at 5:30 yesterday morning, bringing House residents into the courtyard...
...WORLD). The French and the Italians have taken the hardest line, with the West Germans dismayingly cautious and the British somewhere in between. Haig is convinced that Carter was wrong when he tried to bully the allies into supporting his sanctions in 1980, and he has gently tried to coax them into conformity with the U.S. position-with no success so far. Said Haig: "I am optimistic that if the U.S. is patient and shows good sense, the Europeans will come to share our concern, and we can march together...
...takes some doing to coax a roomful of sage, serious adult Harvard students into the frame of mind where they will laugh and cheer hysterically at the sight of other Harvard students thrusting one another behind draperies, only to stumble on still others. But it undoubtedly can be done. And while none of the group that troops out--forgetting, for laughter, to rub its collective strained neck--will go home and discuss the finer points of drama, few will escape without the four-year-old gleam in the eye that comes from one last swoop on the ferris wheel...
...touch of Borg's off-court charm had rubbed off on the bumptious Big Mac. At a White House reception for U.S. Davis Cup and Wightman Cup teams, McEnroe seemed to bewitch First Lady Nancy Reagan, 60, with his new-found gentility. He was unable, however, to coax President Reagan, 70-who prefers his mornings on horseback-onto the court. "I used to play when I was younger," said the President, "but I don't any more because I can't get the horse on the court." -By E.Graydon Carter...