Word: coaxing
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...their 40s. His refusal to support Goldwater made him a villain to the Republican right. But if the conservatives want a winner, it is conceivable that they might help him toward the nomination. In any case, it will probably take considerable public arm-twisting by G.O.P. powers to coax the reluctant Rocky into the arena. It might well prove worth the effort. He is a proved campaigner, effective in the big cities and clearly a match for L.B.J., in both ex perience and expertise. On foreign policy, Rocky, a former Assistant Secretary of State for American Republic Affairs, can claim...
...Sodium (actually a trade name for thiopental sodium), like such related barbiturates as Amytal Sodium and Nembutal, is a depressant that loosens the tongue in much the same way that whisky does. It often alters consciousness enough to make a patient drowsily dependent on the doctor, who then can coax him into spilling information that he has been withholding. By bringing a patient's repressed feelings into the open, truth drugs can be of considerable help in psychiatric therapy...
...with arch jokes, easily identified London streets, pathetic but not particularly likeable characters, and a lot of inexplicable movement that is intended to pass for gaiety. All the rushing around is punctuated with blurted moralisms that are supposed to give the film some depth; as Jos tries to coax her back to bed, guiltstricken Georgy worries about her roommate's baby, born two hours earlier, and observes that "God always has a custard pie up his sleeve...
Zionist Mason. Jessel's real specialty is funerals. Nobody in Hollywood gets buried properly unless Georgie is there to coax a few tears in remembrance. He has played 250 funerals so far, and the most cherished of his eulogies he has included in two of his anthologies. Who can ever forget what he said at Fanny Brice's bierside: "Now my hands fasten to my heart in lament for this all-too-soon exit from the scene. But the great Playwright of this ever-beginning, never-ending plot, the Master Director who so skillfully stages this tightly woven...
...chief profiteer from this process is the "panic peddler" or "blockbuster"-the real estate agent who buys cheap from frightened whites, sells dear to Negroes who cannot buy anywhere else. (Last week's bill specifically prohibited blockbusting by making it unlawful for real estate agents to coax homeowners into selling by alarming them with stories of a Negro influx.) Wherever white residents resist the impulse to get out and cooperate in integrating a Negro family in a neighborhood instead, values not only fail to fall but frequently rise. The first Negro family moved to Baldwin, L.I., eight years...