Word: coaxing
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...broker in the Democratic Congress that Nixon counts on Connally. When it gets down to the bargaining stages, Connally will be trying to coax the President's revenue-sharing program past the opposition of Wilbur Mills, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, a task that may prove to be the equivalent of ramming a copy of the federal budget through the eye of a needle. Connally has also taken over as a chief salesman of Nixon's Government-reorganization program...
...viewed as "better than with prayers and pleas/ in the clutch of some disease/ wasting slowly by degrees. / Better than of heart attack/ Or some dose of drug I lack/ Let me die by being black." The shoot-out continued until one of the police officers tried to coax the re-remaining Panther to surrender. But he refused, ending his statement with, "We came in chains and now your choice must be/ To either blow out all our brains of else just set us free...
Bresson's success is precisely in this capacity to coax sentimentalized associations and then undercut them with his formal austerity-the down-turned camera angles, the quick cutting away from scenes, the static framing. What is left is a nature that is neither scorned nor valued, only accepted for the fact of its existence...
...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...