Word: coaxed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...born an artist, so no man is born an angler," wrote Izaak Walton. He was both, but that was an easier accomplishment in the day of The Compleat Angler (1653), when there were fewer artists and more fish. Today it is harder to coax a fresh idea or albacore to the surface...
...nurserymen though -- people like Montgomery -- and it is easy to see why: one year Easter appears in March; another, it slips across the border into April. How, then, do you kick off a seasonal trade when the calendar plays so freely with ribbon-cutting day? You coax the public perception of spring forward, "force" it, as you would a daffodil...
...infiltrate Nicaragua in time for a spectacular holiday attack. In Honduras, however, the word is that the contras' fireworks will not begin until the end of January. Whenever the contras finally do resume their war, the pyrotechnics will have to be bright, indeed, if the rebels hope to coax more funds from a reluctant U.S. Congress...
...insight about her corporeal self and that of women in general: "A Female Body is not just a piece of liver from the butcher . . . It is more like a musical instrument made of flesh and blood that has music waiting inside it but only for properly trained hands to coax out. Make the bastards learn...
...racial conflicts worsen in South Africa, the Reagan Administration continues to cast about for ways to reshape its policy of "constructive engagement," which has attempted to coax and cajole the country into making changes in apartheid. Apparently, the White House is nearing a decision on an appointment that could deeply affect that policy: the U.S. ambassadorship to Pretoria. Herman Nickel, who has held that post for four years and played an important role as the local spokesman for constructive engagement, will reportedly step down by the end of the month...