Word: coaxes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...committee heard from a Minneapolis police officer who had come to Manhattan to coax young Midwest prostitutes to return to their parents or to "safe houses," where they would be protected from their pimps. The officer had failed-largely because publicity about his visit took the girls temporarily off the streets-but he and a few of his previously liberated young streetwalkers told harrowing stories. Two examples...
What can be done? A simple solution would be to coax North Carolina and Virginia, the two biggest cigarette producers, into raising their per-pack taxes, thus eliminating the potential for profit. But that is not likely to happen; officials in those states think the problem is not that their taxes are too low but that taxes in Northern states are absurdly high. Says North Carolina Attorney General Rufus Edmisten: "I cannot justify spending countless hours looking for cigarette bootleggers who are not in violation of any of North Carolina's statutes." He is quite correct that they...
...reelection. Much of his problem was an aloof, patrician image and soporific campaign style. He opened himself to the accusation that he was more devoted to the perks than to the duties of his office. He blandly called intrastate helicopter hops "the best way to travel." Aides had to coax him into playing fewer tennis matches with celebrities, such as Andy Williams and Arthur Ashe, and spending more time pressing the flesh. Still, his backhand is naturally superior to his handshake. During an Italian-American street festival in Chambersburg, N.J., Jimmy Carter had to prompt the Governor?and candidate?...
...difficulty with Begin is just one of the problems Carter faces in his attempt to resolve the Arab-Israeli conflict. Carter's strategy, drawn largely from a 1975 Brookings Institution study, has been to coax the Arabs and Israelis to an early Geneva conference at which a comprehensive (in contrast to a step-by-step) solution would be negotiated. A fair settlement, according to Carter's many statements on the subject, would resolve three fundamental issues: the nature of peace for Israel, the borders of the warring states, and the fate of the Palestinians. In his search for settlement...
That old joke about the man who liked pancakes so much he collected trunkfuls of them wouldn't coax a chuckle from Cecil Heidelberger. For years, neighbors of the chubby junk dealer in rural Andover, Minn., were I amazed, amused or outraged by his g particular passion: worn-out auto tires...