Word: coaxing
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...acorn from which the Ukrainian oak is expected to grow is the autonomous district of Ruthenia, eastern tip of the German-dominated remainder of Czechoslovakia. Poland tried to coax Hungary into grabbing Ruthenia last month, but Germany effectively vetoed the idea. The 725,000 Ruthenians differ only slightly from Ukrainians in dialect and religion...
Yale '92 has adopted the following euphonious yell: "Bric-a-kex-kex, coax, coax, bric-a-kex-kex, coax, coax, whu-op, whu-op, whu-up, parabalco-'92." (Sept...
...Ovid, he had to rely on his imagination. He painted a troop of satyrs and demi-mortals congregating in a meadow around a hollow tree, a young bibulous Bacchus, a grinning Silenus straddling a donkey. Most of the company were engaged in making a racket on tin pans, to coax a swarm of bees into a cluster. Title: The Discovery of Honey...
...Finance Minister Reynaud announced he would not answer his telephone for five days, promised by then to have drawn up a new financial program. This was expected to be "orthodox," that is, not to crack down on private capital or private initiative, but to continue "democratic" efforts to coax and induce a financial recovery in France and "balance the budget." Without quite knowing what steps M. Reynaud was going to take, M. Marchandeau snorted that "similar measures have failed at least three times before, and I fail to see why they should succeed...
...entitled to vote boycotted the last election in 1935, because the "Polish Republic" is a mere façade for Army Dictatorship, although technically under the Constitution dictatorial powers are vested in a civilian professor of chemistry, President Ignacy Moscicki. Army Strong Man Smigly-Rydz hopes he can now coax the boycotting parties back into making a show of national unity at the polls, but not of course into ousting the Army clique of which he is the head...