Word: coaxes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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From the moment he appeared, it was clear that he was totally in control. There was none of the nervousness of the early concerts with the Band in 1974 when they had to coax him back on stage by playing "Stage Fright." This time he was confident, exuberant, and keeping it directed, bouncing on the balls of both feet, then going into a cocky strut across the stage, over to his new fiddler, Scarlet Rivera, and dancing around...
...know I can walk and I want to see my car," the driver insisted as ambulance attendants tried to coax him onto a stretcher...
Rape or Redress? Against this chilling backdrop the Senate, after months of delay, last week took up the emotional subject of how much gas prices should be allowed to rise in order to coax more gas out of the ground and into pipelines to consuming states. At stake were billions of dollars that gas producers and pipeline operators might reap in higher prices, the jobs of workers in industries dependent upon gas, and the comfort of millions of home dwellers. Oklahoma Republican Dewey F. Bartlett warned that if the Democrats succeeded in keeping prices under tight control, gas producers would...
...still a stigma attached to young boys' taking up ballet. A classroom of 30 students may include only one male. We are far behind Russia in this respect, but not in our quality. Your article, revealing the earning power of a top male dancer, will, I hope, coax more parents into sending their young sons to the dance barre...
Private Letters. Asked for specifics, Jackson said that he trusted his source but did not know the details of precisely what Washington had promised Thieu when the U.S. was trying to coax the Saigon government into a settlement. Other sources close to Jackson claimed that the Washington Senator's source had told him that Nixon may have verbally pledged that the U.S. would respond with the use of its air-power if the North Vietnamese staged a full offensive...