Word: coaxes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with the handful of rich Nicaraguans and worked by agricultural workers some of whom earn less than $1 a day, produce coffee, bananas, cotton and beef for the import market. At the same time, peasants working tiny, inefficient plots of land (which often also belong to landlords) struggle to coax enough beans, rice and corn from the soil to feed their families, with perhaps something left over to sell in the local market. With the climbing birth rates, and the continuous introduction of labor-saving machinery in the large estates, peasants and small-town dwellers stream to the capital, attracted...
...domination of Nicaragua by North American culture. English is becoming a kind of second language, necessary for medical students whose textbooks are in English, for the purchaser of a home appliance for which the operating instructions are in English, even for a shoeshine boy or a waitress who would coax a few extra centavos out of the gringo tourists. Some of this cultural influence is due a filtering down of the upper-class aping of everything North American: much of it, however, is pure necessity in a society shaped and dominated largely from without...
...subject I ever worked with." Ward rode alone with the President to the hospital to have lunch with Betty Ford after her cancer operation. Ward was there when Mrs. Ford said goodbye to her son Steve following her mastectomy. He was present at Camp David when Ford decided to coax Liberty, his golden retriever, into the pool. Shooting rapidly, and somehow managing to keep dry, Ward recorded a slapstick sequence as Betty Ford pushed her husband into the water, then Press Secretary Ronald Nessen and Nancy Howe, Mrs. Ford's personal secretary, dunked each other. And in a Truffautesque...
...Greif began by inviting communication. He wanted comments about a slide of a woman holding a baby and began trying to coax comments in a way that no grade school child I know would have tolerated. He also made insulting comments, subtle though they were, to those who obligingly responded to his seemingly meaningless request. At last he let us know how really stupid we were when he pointed out that we hadn't noticed that we couldn't see one of the baby's hands, and that, having actually been to Portugal, and seen the baby and grandmother...
Dilworth, an investment banker whose uncle was former Philadelphia Mayor Richardson Dilworth, explained that it had not been easy to coax financial details out of the family. "Some felt that this was a terrible invasion of privacy," he said. "Others shrugged their shoulders and figured that something had got started that couldn't be stopped." In the end, Dilworth managed to reach all the family members with the exception of a niece, Eileen Rockefeller, who is "working on a conservation project in darkest Africa...