Word: coaxing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...technology. As for natural gas, the U.S. should now permit the price to rise enough to encourage full-speed exploration and drilling-even if the boost required turns out to be 25%, as some energy experts anticipate. The nation needs more gas, and present prices are too low to coax it out of the ground...
...galleries murmured again when Texas Democrat Lloyd Bentsen, a freshman widely viewed as a conservative, uttered his no-even though Fellow Texan John Connally had been assigned to coax a yes from him. Heads bowed over their tally sheets, Jackson and Washington's other SST proponent, Democrat Warren Magnuson, looked glum. Proxmire's fist shot up again when Cooper showed that Nixon's appeal had not influenced him; he voted against the SST. Minnesota Democrat Hubert Humphrey, who owes a huge debt to labor for its support in his presidential race, nevertheless cast his vote against...
...head of the California Rural Legal Assistance (CRLA), Reynoso helped to coax $200 million from the state government of California to supplement inadequate or nonexistent welfare payments for needy families...
That is not to say, however, that the U.S. is exerting no pressure at all. Although Washington officially denies it, sources in Cairo said the State Department has assumed Sadat that the U.S. is doing its utmost to coax the Israelis into a more flexible position. Israel Galili, a Cabinet Minister Without Portfolio and one of Premier Golda Meir's closest advisers, admitted that the U.S. and Israel are engaged in "a strenuous argument." And the U.S. has let the Israelis know-"not as a threat but as a fact," as an American official put it-that Israel...
...fifth-grade lesson, the teacher induces jealousy by repeatedly choosing the same bright, attractive youngster to do blackboard work. When the class balks at this favoritism, the teacher admits her ploy, then tries to coax the students into conceding that they feel jealous. "It is important," says the teachers' guide, "that no one feel he is strange or wicked if he is jealous from time to time. By admitting jealousy and talking about it, children are less likely to act out their aggressive feelings...