Word: coaxing
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...TIRED of being imitated by the Daily News and are willing to pay $10,000 to any intellectual giant that will tell us how we can SHAME them, DISCOURAGE them, CAJOLE them, COAX them, PERSUADE them, or SCARE them into stopping their infernal chameleon-like imitations of the Daily Mirror...
What though we beg and plead and coax...
...Yovanovitch said he would try and went his way trying to coax a coalition Government into existence. No one was hopeful, no one gave him any encouragement, all was gloom; but M. Yovanovitch went on trying...
...doubt it is a touching tribute to the college man that the special investigators should have chosen this particular disguise to allay suspicion and to coax hidden beverages from their secret places. But if this practice continues, and the faith of restaurant owners is repeatedly betrayed by masquerading detectives, the college man will be driven to a last and desperate resort. His final remedy will be, of course, to return the compliment and disguise himself as a "rum hound"" which as Donald Ogden Stewart says, is easily done by tucking the ends of one's necktie under the points...
...skill of Benes in extracting millions from a country whence Andrew Mellon cannot coax...