Word: coaxings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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More from Less. Khrushchev learned his lesson from the huge U.S. fertilizer industry, which now produces 30 million tons of fertilizer a year-nearly twice as much as Russia-and is one of the principal reasons why U.S. farmers are able to coax the world's fattest crops from their land. U.S.-produced fertilizer-now almost completely chemical-is sprinkled on the earth by hand from bulky bags, sprayed on from lumbering field machines, dusted from low-flying planes, even pumped into irrigation streams. By pouring on five times as much fertilizer as they did 30 years ago, mechanized...
Buster Keaton, utterly wasted in one brief sequence, might have told Director Kramer a thing or two about the shrewd use of slapstick to coax belly laughs from an episode that has three comedians tearing down a garage with all the deadly, humorless efficiency of a professional demolition crew. Cutting from incident to incident, car to car, ground to air, the film dissipates its fun at every turn, and the only chase to build up steam is a Chase named Barrie, who dances a wicked deadpan twist. Mad World reaches its nadir with an abortive climax that puts Spencer Tracy...
...exasperated grocer claims it took him a year to collect a $50 debt from the Congolese embassy, and a Bonn moving company has been trying for three years to collect the balance of a $1,100 bill from the Saudi Arabians. When a landlord in nearby Remagen could not coax the rent from his South Korean tenants, he went to the Foreign Office and asked that the debt be covered by development aid money earmarked for Korea. The request was refused, but Foreign Office officials began worrying that deadbeat diplomacy might arouse enough adverse public opinion to damage their...
...Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.: "The president of the Hasty Pudding Club." » Hitler: "Incongruities ran up and down the man. Hitler's massive brow ridge was strikingly out of proportion to the sunken upper jaw which the little mustache was inadequate to coax out. His nose was crudely hacked out, unfinished, a vulgar proboscis...
...same considerations that drew its competitors to fertilizer companies. Ammonia from crude oil is a key ingredient in fertilizers, and Spencer has been buying a lot of it from Gulf. U.S. fertilizer sales have been growing 10% a year, as farmers pour on more of it to coax higher output from their Government-limited acreage allotments. Meanwhile, the oilmen have been itching to diversify because gasoline wars have hit prices (last week in the Midwest they were down another penny per gallon to 10.75? wholesale...