Word: coaxing
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...discovery was the result of a dogged effort to see if new drilling techniques could coax more oil out of the Appalachian basin where U.S. oilmen brought in their first wells almost a century ago. The companies gambled on three wells-and got three dry holes. With the fourth, on a 9,000-acre lease (annual rental: 25? an acre) in the northeast corner of the state, he finally hit the jackpot. Benedum figures the well should produce at least 1,000 bbl. daily on a long-term basis. Within hours of the strike nine companies were in the area...
Chances with Fenders. To coax Smith out of the woods, Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art last week staged an impressive retrospective of 34 of his bronze, steel and iron works, plus a handful of paintings and drawings, covering some 20 years of production. After Andrew Carnduff Ritchie, Yale's new fine arts department head, looked over Smith's lacerating steel birds, ponderous tank totems and one creature of dubious charms compounded of salvaged auto fenders recast in bronze, he said: "Smith takes chances and he has the courage to fall flat on his face...
...much the same conclusion. A mentally ill woman's desire for abortion is strongest, they agreed, in the first three months. After that, when the fetus "quickens," said Psychiatrist John D.W. Pearce, the desire to be rid of the baby usually subsides. The G.P., he suggested, can often coax a woman through those first three months. Suicide threats pose a knottier problem. They cannot be ignored. Yet often the woman who voices them most vociferously is using them to lash out at those around her and is not likely to carry them out. The challenge to the psychiatrist...
...three barefoot Indian musicians sat down cross-legged on an Oriental carpet on the stage of Judson Memorial Hall at Manhattan's Washington Square. Glancing at the drummer to the right of him, Ravi Shankar cradled his sitar in his arms, and with slender, agile fingers began to coax from its steel strings a piercingly plaintive, twangy melody. Beside him the tabla (drum) thrummed and rataplanned a shifting, syncopated beat, and behind him a four-stringed, unfretted lute named the tamboura thinly droned its hypnotic accompaniment. Thus Sitarist Shankar, India's most widely famed contemporary musician, last week...
...pickers who traipse along with the harvests. The orphaned hero, Polk Watson, leaves a Georgia farm to hit the picker's trail with his Uncle Chunk, a shrewd, garrulous, gallused cracker who proves to the hilt Author Williams' observation that "no picking machine invented can cup and coax a tomato free like the human hand." Polk grows up in a seedy world of depressing boarding houses, trailer camps and sudden violence which gives the flashes of human love and devotion an original and affecting backdrop. By the time the Widow Odom tells him in Florida...