Word: coaxing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...returning to political action for the first time since they dispersed in bitterness after the bloody Chicago convention. While some young extremists were still sporadically fire-bombing ROTC offices, many thousands more coalesced in the new activist movement. It was in effect a rapidly formed, massive new lobby to coax or coerce change from the system. Some of the more vociferous radicals had at least temporarily muted their voices, but more important, the changed context of the Indochinese war and the Kent and Jackson State killings suddenly brought a new legion of moderate, previously uncommitted Americans, most of them students...
...businessman's President has made several attempts to coax stock prices upward and offer an illusion of prosperity. On April 28, after the Dow closed at 724.33, the lowest since the day John Kennedy was killed. Nixon spoke of his absolute faith in the economy and said that he would, himself, be buying stocks now if he had money to spare. Presumably investors were to believe in Nixon and buy stocks, making the market rise . . . By May 5 the Dow Jones Industrials had fallen to 709.81. And the Dow closed Friday...
...golfers to study a green as though it were a minefield, surveying each blade of grass along the intended route. Their stances vary from the pigeon-toed crouch of Palmer to the cross-handed contortions of Orville Moody. And once the ball is on its way, they try to coax it along into the hole with some of the most astounding body English this side of a Martha Graham troupe. The stakes are worth it. As some laureate of the links once observed: "You drive for show, you putt for dough...
...entire Haynsworth-Carswell episode?from the nominations through Nixon's angry protests?underscores that failure of leadership. Instead of accepting the Senate's rebuke gracefully in the realization that he may have needlessly contributed to the impasse, Nixon reverted to mundane politics, trying to coax partisan advantage from adversity...
...feels like really getting into it tonight. "I've just had an idea," he says. "Tonight I want you to try and play each act like it was the whole show." Once the play starts he can't do a damn thing about it. Until then he can coax them, threaten them, scream at them. Tonight he is coaxing...