Word: coaxed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nixon believes that the U.S. can coax the Chinese in the right direction by providing them with Western technology. He hastens to add: "That does not necessarily mean military technology. We should reduce the profile of our military partnership with them. There is no point in having American Secretaries of Defense running over there all the time, putting on their hard hats and huffing and puffing. [Former Secretary of Defense Harold Brown visited China in 1980, and Caspar Weinberger wants to go.] For one thing, that kind of display doesn't scare the Russians; it just makes them more...
Owners of telephone answering machines have long had a vexing problem: many people hang up as soon as they hear a recorded response. Celebrity Voices, a North Hollywood, Calif., firm, thinks that its taped impersonations of famous people might be a humorous way to coax callers into leaving a message. Prices for the personalized recordings are $29.95 and up. Since the company started business in April, it has taken orders worth more than...
Mortal danger remains a remote but real possibility. Wilkinson collars a drunk driver of awesome size and manages to coax him to jail. Later that night, the prisoner wakes up in his cell and rips the toilet out of the wall with his bare hands. At his trial, the man explains what happened: "A little energized particle broke off a star in a galaxy somewhere far away and shot down and came through the open window, and when it hit the toilet, BOOM, the whole thing blew up. I could have been killed...
...inaugural address, he left no doubt about his allegiances. Said he: "I live in the bosom of the armed forces, and to them I give my gratitude." Such effusive fealty may have brought him to the Casa Rosada, but the prime test of his presidency will be how to coax his army patrons into accepting free elections...
...everybody has been happy with the Boston Marathon. Olympic Gold Medal Winner Frank Shorter has run at Boston only twice, the last time in 1979. Among other reasons, he could never coax so much as a plane ticket out of Cloney. Sneaker companies have probably picked up a few tabs over the years in Boston, but the runners have never been paid or even had expenses defrayed by the B.A.A...