Word: coaxes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Vastola also tries to coax his opponents into reacting to his actions rather than calmly designing their own. "When you're aggressive, beating the blade hard, making strong provocations--getting him to react you can then go through his defense like you were carving a cake of butter...
...guerrillas inside Rhodesia and thousands more in neighboring Mozambique and Zambia. The prospect is that it will fight on as long as it thinks it has a chance of coming to power in Salisbury. Western governments and several other interested parties made overtures last year to coax Nkomo into abandoning Mugabe and joining the interim Rhodesian regime. The efforts failed. Dismissing last week's results and the April election as well, Nkomo scathingly told TIME: "The people will have won the war by April...
...reassigned to areas distant from relatives and friends, a step that some analysts viewed as a way to lessen any inhibitions among the soldiers to open fire during a confrontation with anti-Shah protesters. To defuse the coup threat, the Administration dispatched General Robert E. Huyser to Tehran to coax military leaders into supporting Bakhtiar...
...remove all their NO SMOKING signs for the duration. The Mothers of Twins asked the Sheraton-Boston for free baby-sitting services, but the hotel found that request too taxing. Chicago's Lurye says he has bailed conventioneers out of jail, taken them to hospitals and, once, had to coax a convention employee to share her oral contraceptives. That latter mission came after Lurye spotted a man hanging over the balcony of an Acapulco hotel screaming, "Help! My wife ran out of birth control pills...
However, if Gerber merits praise for her professional competence, she also deserves blame for failing to coax the actors into displaying any sincere emotions. The annoyingly overarticulated speech and tightly disciplined movements suggests relentless drilling, which has paid off in unremittingly mechanical deliveries. Nor do most of the actors bother to vary their volume or pitch effectively, even in critical scenes...