Word: coaxing
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...waved that 'Nobody likes a one-book author' slogan around like an old Excelsior banner. When I finished my second book she changed it to 'Nobody likes a two-book author.' Then three . . ." Betty's attempt to lay another golden Egg is sure to coax thousands of readers into the bookshops, only to learn that Betty is cackling over an empty nest...
...call each of 96 colleagues to ask if she had a brother or uncle suitable for marriage (the 87th said she had). Any place is a good place for the assault, said Miss Carlyle. On cruises, ask the booking agent "when and where eligible bachelors sail ... Kiddingly coax the deck steward into placing you between the two handsomest men on the boat...
Banging away at his typewriter, sometimes "from 11 a.m. till 2 o'clock at night," Lewis found the age of Grant becoming "incredibly real" to him. "Some days," he wrote, "it seems the only real thing in the world." He made endless journeys to coax new material out of aging heirs and yellowing documents, ended up writing 30 versions of his first chapter before he was satisfied. This week, as Volume I finally appeared, readers had a chance to sample the fine result of Lewis' hard-working devotion, but without hope of reading the rest of the story...
...years, the fatherly Bureau of Indian Affairs had been trying to coax Oregon's Celilo Indians into abandoning their evil-smelling fishing village, perched on the cliffs above the Columbia River, 95 miles east of Portland. If they would move out, the Government promised, new quarters would be provided across the road, with concrete decks where visiting fishermen could pitch their wigwams, honest-to-Manitou houses for the permanent residents, and inside plumbing...
...sensitive boy who mourns for the tarpon he has caught, and tries to coax it back to life...