Word: coaxings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...questioned uniformed men. Squads raided poolrooms and bowling alleys. At the border, customs officials refused transit to men who did not have mobilization-board permits to leave the country (some deserters were known to be in the U.S. Northwest). By listing desertion penalties, Government-sponsored newspaper advertisements tried to coax deserters to return...
Step Four. One of the marines kept on talking about coaxing the Jap or Japs out of the cave. Said he somewhat wistfully: "I wish we had somebody that knew enough Japanese to fetch him out." He said this in a low voice so the sergeant couldn't hear him. Another private first class observed that he didn't believe the Emperor himself knew enough Japanese to coax anybody out of that hole...
...Treasury's 19 advertising and promotion men under able, talkative Max B. Cook, of Scripps-Howard, had done their dazzling best to coax, lure, bewitch, shove, smash and plaster U.S. citizens into buying $15 billion in war bonds. Promoter Cook and staff used every trick in the bag - and thought up new ones. Audaciously they even had Secretary Morgenthau wangle a bond plug from Joseph Stalin (". . . help the joint efforts of the Allies to achieve victory" - see p. 36). Their goal this time: the "little man," as most war bonds thus far have been bought by corporations, banks, insurance...
...Administrator, reasoned: to the U.S. people, OPA has seemed a bully, an irritant, a source of confusion. Nevertheless, in all Washington bureaucracy, few bureaus are so vital. Rationing is necessary; price and rent controls are basic to a wartime economy. The need, therefore is to coax and cajole the citizens into liking OPA, much as tough urchins are taught to like cops...
...formed, so that each soloist will have solid support during his innings. The entries are not closed yet, and even if you play only a slide whistle, remember that Louis Armstrong has brought a new lease of life even to that unimpressive instrument, so that if you can coax a jazz solo from it, you are welcome...