Word: coaxes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...state dinner with something to read while she ate. At last week's party for Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, she pored over The Story of the Gettysburg Address and Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator. Her dinner partner, Senator Edmund Muskie, gently interrupted her reading to coax her to eat her spinach timbale. Later, with a flourish, Amy gave Muskie a souvenir-her place card, on which she had inscribed EAT YOUR SPINACH. Perhaps Amy will start a trend. Asked Washington Post Columnist Judith Martin: "If the book was better than the table conversation, which is certainly possible...
...fragile basis for talks in Geneva between Prime Minister Ian Smith's white-dominated regime and four black nationalist leaders-Joshua Nkomo, Robert Mugabe, Bishop Abel Muzorewa and the Rev. Ndabaningi Sithole (TIME, Nov. 15). For seven frustrating weeks Richard, as chairman of the conference, tried to coax the participants beyond acrimonious haggling. With almost nothing accomplished, the talks recessed for the holidays...
...industrial lead, massive expenditures of energy will always be necessary. Thus, given the long lead times needed to develop alternate sources of energy (eight to ten years from blueprint to electricity production for a nuclear power plant, for example), the Government also must speed up its efforts to coax more energy from those sources. But here too there are serious problems-technological, environmental, political. At present, the mainspring of the Government drive is the Energy Research and Development Administration, a fledgling agency set up in January 1975 to pull together the loose jumble of federal energy research programs. But ERDA...
...during darkness to a high of +50° during the day, and record wind velocities, barometric pressures and humidity. A seismograph, placed aboard the Viking to detect Marsquakes and volcanic activity, was apparently not working at week's end, but scientists still had hopes that they could coax it into operation...
...liberals have played weekly since reform Cambridge civic government began, seemed foolish. After all, as at least one observer marvelled while walking out of the chambers this week, if the mayor's position is such a ceremonial one, why all the fuss? Why can't one of the independents coax the other four into unanimity? And if the mayoralty of Cambridge really is in name only, why can't the liberals put four and one together and make five...