Word: coaxing
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...peacetime Army was getting more like a country club all the time, and it was not worrying about the expense either. To coax reserve officers and enlisted men into weekend training camps, the Army was fixing up New York's Fort Totten to take care of the citizen soldiers' families as well. The wives and kiddies would have to pay for their own meals and transportation, of course. But the Army would convert part of the post hospital into comfortable family quarters for a long country weekend on the shores of Long Island. The idea, which started...
...cars, about 1,500,000 television sets and a million new homes. There was "strong underlying consumer demand," said FRB, "if goods were available at prices and qualities considered attractive." So far the price cuts on many things had not been great enough to coax out the "strong underlying consumer demand." And despite the drop in commodities and the general business recession, many an item in the cost of living was not following the trend. For example, meat, which had dropped, had gone up again. But those industries which had gone through their own recessions and cut prices had found...
...auto repairman, his mother turned over the care of her other five children to a social worker. The hospital set up a special kitchen so that Mrs. Rector could cook the protein-rich eggs and hamburgers her son required to build up his ravaged tissue, coax him into eating...
Thorp's committee was concerned only with the know-how part of the program. Elsewhere in Washington, men were trying to figure how best to coax U.S. capital. Some of the proposals...
Perhaps to the board's surprise, the public seemed to find it as much to blame as the unions. Said the New York Daily News: "If the present management can't make a go of the Met we won't coax them to stay . . . if the Met show is to go on, let's bring in some real pros to manage...